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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24OZ_the-changing-trail-to-oregon_Cottage-Grove-OR.html
The trail to Oregon was never a single set of wagon ruts etched from Missouri to the Willamette Valley. Wagons often traveled abreast through valleys and plains sometimes widening the trail several miles. In the mountains they constantly attempted…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VGL_the-centennial-bridge-historical_Cottage-Grove-OR.html
The Centennial Bridge was built in 1987 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Cottage Grove. It was built by volunteers with recycled timbers from the Brumbaugh and Meadows bridges, and paid for with donations. Its Howe truss spans 84' and rests o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VGB_cottage-grove-historical-museum-historical_Cottage-Grove-OR.html
Erected as a Roman Catholic church
Stained glass windows from Italy
Placed by
Calapooya Chapter
DAR
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VFD_patterson-home-site-animal-house-historical_Eugene-OR.html
Site of the home of A.W. and Amanda Patterson. He was a pioneer Lane County doctor and surveyor who plotted a greater part of Eugene. In 1853, Patterson was also a member of the Oregon Legislature and was instrumental in establishing the Universit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VF8_ellis-f-lawrence-historical_Eugene-OR.html
During the first half of the 20th century, Ellis Fuller Lawrence was one of Oregon's foremost architects. In 1914, he became the founder and first dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. During his 32 year t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VEO_granite-glacial-erratic-historical_Eugene-OR.html
A rock or boulder carried from its original source by an act of nature is called an erratic. This granite erratic was deposited near Harrisburg, Oregon about 12,000 years ago. Geologists say it was carried there by an iceberg during the Spokane-Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VEN_the-collier-house-historical_Eugene-OR.html
Built in 1886
by
George Haskell Collier
Professor of Physics
University of Oregon
from 1879 to 1895
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VEJ_bristow-monument-historical_Pleasant-Hill-OR.html
Elijah Bristow, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's army, erected his cabin here on Pleasant Hill in 1846, earliest year of settlement in Lane County. He and his wife Susannah then led in establishing the county's first church and first school. This rep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VEI_elijah-bristow-historical_Pleasant-Hill-OR.html
In 1845 Elijah Bristow and his wife (Susannah Gabbart Bristow) left their home in Illinois and traveled overland to California. They came to Oregon in the spring of 1846, following the Hudson's Bay trappers' route to the northern Willamette Valley…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VEF_petrified-wood-historical_Eugene-OR.html
This piece of petrified wood was found near the mouth of Moffett Creek when the Columbia River Highway was widened in 1950. The wood turned to stone as the fiber of the original tree, which lived during the early Miocene age (26 million years ago)…