[or-roots] Oregon Trail, or not... Att Nanci Axleton

[Leslie Chapman]

Heather;

Now to your question Heather, that would have been far too far south for the
Oregon trail. Can you remember and give me a little more specifics on the
location of the blaze marks you mention. I believe there were a number of
trails in that area in the 19th century and early 20th. I might be able to
pin down your specific trail if I can find the original survey map of that
area from the surveyors office. I also am going to contact you off list as
we most likely have mutual acquiantances.

 Looking at the 1895 atlas map of Douglas County shows a trail or wagon road
running roughly parallel to the Norh Umpqua River and a few miles north of
it, understand this map is very crude, it shows the river running more or
less in a straight line east west from about Wilbur to north of Mt.
Thielson.

http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/OR/County/douglas.htm

This location makes sense of the location of Nanci Axleton's ancestor and
his DLC; as near as I can tell his claim would have been right on the above
mentioned trail.

Les Chapman khanjehgil at presys.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Heather and Pat
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 7:30 AM

Hello,
I've been lurking, but enjoy everyone genealogy tales.. You learn a lot
about the state history by listening... Anyway since we're mentioning the
trail and ruts, (by the way I liked that picture from Baker City... Great
learning center there...) I am reminded when I was working on the Diamond
Lake Ranger District (it's near Crater lake) of working on a thinning
project and finding trail blazes.  Our anthropologist said she would look
into what they may have been but I never heard if they were from the Oregon
Trail or something different.  (To reassure everyone those trees were not
taken and were protected with a buffer zone...)
  If anyone knows the area, HWY 138 east runs through that area, do you know
if that was a younger trail then the rush of the 1830 and 40s or about that
time frame?  I lived up there for 22 years and I don't ever remember hearing
about that sort of stuff.

Heather
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