Grants Pass is the county seat for Josephine County
Wolf Creek is in Josephine County
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Near Sunny Valley Loop near Placer Road (Route 34-5-10), on the right when traveling north.
In 1846 the Crowley Family arrived in the valley with the first wagon train over the Applegate Trail.
Martha Leland Crowley, a daughter, succumbed to typhoid fever at the age of 16. She was buried here in a casket made of timber boards from some . . . — — Map (db m114481) HM
On Sunny Valley Loop, on the left when traveling north.
"Move one mile to camp (on Grave Creek), having none last night, and spent the day burying Mr. Cowley's daughter (Martha), who died yesterday evening, age about 14 years." - Virgil K. Pringle, Oct. 19, 1846 — — Map (db m112854) HM
On I-5 Frontage Road at Ritchie Road, on the right when traveling north on I-5 Frontage Road.
The narrow gorge of Canyon Creek has long served as a travel corridor. Native Americans likely trekked this canyon for thousands of years. Alexander McLeod of the Hudson's Bay Company provided the first written account of the route in 1829, while . . . — — Map (db m112856) HM
On Old State Highway 99 South near Front Street, on the left when traveling north.
Between 1846 and 1856 the Applegate Trail through Josephine County became a major travel corridor for settles, miners, freighters and those trekking between Oregon and California. Where the well-traveled route crossed the valley of Wolf Creek, a . . . — — Map (db m114479) HM
On Old State Highway 99 South at Front Street, on the left when traveling north on Old State Highway 99 South.
Generations of Oregon school children learned the lyrics of a song: "Hurry up oh pioneers, your faithful little band must never fail." Applegate Trail emigrants struggled to follow this advice, but the mountainous terrain of northern . . . — — Map (db m153823) HM
On Coyote Creek Road near Bear Gulch Road, on the left when traveling east.
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Imagine carrying just a backpack and a pick and hearing the shouts of "Gold!" as they rang through this valley.
It's 1851. You've traveled hundreds of miles to make your . . . — — Map (db m115245) HM
On Coyote Creek Road near Bear Gulch Road, on the left when traveling east.
Established in 1890, this mining town was unique in Western annals in that it had two churches and no saloons. The miners went to Placer off Grave Creek for "refreshments".
Rev. William Ruble, leader of a group commonly known as "Campbellites" . . . — — Map (db m114516) HM
On Lower Grave Creek Road, on the left when traveling south.
Henry & Rebecca McMichael were the
first to settle this "little meadow” in
about 1873. Called "Lonesome Cove
Ranch” and later "McMichael Station"
by newsmen who stayed while writing
about mining. In 1875 Nathaniel McNair
established his pack . . . — — Map (db m174492) HM
On Sunny Valley Loop north of Interstate 5, on the left when traveling north.
In 1846, Jesse Applegate and fourteen others from near Dallas, Oregon, established a trail south from the Williamette Valley and east to Fort Hall. This route offered emigrants an alternative to the perilous “last leg” of the Oregon . . . — — Map (db m63155) HM
Near Sunny Valley Loop near Placer Road (Route 34-5-10), on the right when traveling north.
Jesse and Lindsay Applegate, members of the first wave of Oregon Trail emigrants, watched their ten-year old sons drown in the Columbia River when a boat overturned in the rapids near The Dalles in 1843. Once their families were settled, the . . . — — Map (db m114483) HM
On Old State Highway 99 South at Front Street, on the left when traveling north on Old State Highway 99 South.
In 1846, Jesse Applegate and fourteen others from near Dallas, Oregon, established a trail south from the Willamette Valley and east to Fort Hall. This route offered emigrants an alternative to the perilous "last leg" of the Oregon Trail down the . . . — — Map (db m114488) HM
On Front Street at Lower Wolf Creek Road, on the right when traveling south on Front Street.
Wolf Creek Tavern was built c. 1883 by Henry Smith, a highly successful and influential local entrepreneur. The establishment of the hotel, mercantile and post office occurred at the time the Oregon and California Railroad was being completed in . . . — — Map (db m47204) HM
