Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1853/00/00 | US Army's First Dragoons from Benicia, CA build a log stockade on the south side of the Rogue River, near the mouth of Bear Creek, to protect the Rogue River Indian Agency on the north side of the river. It was abandond in 1856. | Fort Lane Military Post Site, Central Point |
1855/10/08 | Major J A Lupton leads 35 men from Jacksonville, Oregon in attacking group of Takelma who had returned to their old village at the mouth of Little Butte Creek, killing about 30 of them. Major Lupton is killed and eleven of his men are wounded. | |
1856/00/00 | Brigadier General Joseph Lane uses the Birdseye House as his headquarters briefly during the Rogue River Wars, 1855-1856. | David N Birdseye House, Rogue River |
1856/03/00 | Settlers in the district fortify Birdseye homestead with a stockade and, from October 1855 to March 1856, banded together for protection. | David N Birdseye House, Rogue River |
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