The Applegate Trail - Southern Route to Oregon

The Applegate Trail - Southern Route to Oregon (HM24P3)

Location: Cottage Grove, OR 97424 Lane County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 47.855', W 123° 3.887'

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Cottage Grove

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 treacherous Columbia River.
The first emigrants to trek the new "Southern Road" left with the trailblazers from Fort Hall in early August 1846. With Levi Scott acting as guide, while Jesse Applegate traveled ahead to mark the route, the hardy emigrants blazed a wagon trail through nearly 500 miles of wilderness arriving in the upper Willamette Valley in November. Emigrant travel continued along the Applegate Trail in later years and contributed greatly to the settlement of southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley.

Cottage Grove Emigrant Trail


The Applegate Trail split into two routes in the northern Umpqua Valley. The eastern route, established in 1846 by Jesse Applegate, Levi Scott, Moses "Black" Harris and twelve others from Polk County, passed through Cottage Grove, Creswell, Eugene, and Junction City - its is approximated today by River Road and HIghway 99. The western route, an ancient Kalapuya Indian trace and a Hudson's Bay Company "trappers' trail' until the 1840s, was the most widely used alternate route. Known as



the "California Trail," it became a wagon road in the late 1840s. Today Territorial Road closely follows this historic trail.
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HM NumberHM24P3
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Placed ByApplegate Trail Coalition
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Date Added Thursday, January 18th, 2018 at 10:02am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 494788 N 4849393
Decimal Degrees43.79758333, -123.06478333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 47.855', W 123° 3.887'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 47' 51.3" N, 123° 3' 53.22" W
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Area Code(s)541
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near W Main St, Cottage Grove OR 97424, US
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