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The Oregon Central Military Wagon Road was a circuitous 420-mile (680 km) wagon trace designed to capture government land grants rather than link destinations. Today, Oregon Route 58 (also known as the Willamette Pass Highway) follows the first leg of the Oregon Central military road from Eugene over the Cascades to Central Oregon .
Santiam Wagon Road; Siskiyou Trail; Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road; T. The Dalles Military Road; Thomas and Ruckle Road; Y. York Factory Express
The Great Wagon Road, also known as the Philadelphia Wagon Road, is a historic trail in the eastern United States that was first traveled by indigenous tribes, and later explorers, settlers, soldiers, and travelers.
One of Oregon's most unique mountain bike rides follows a route pioneered by Native Americans and turned into a wagon road in the late 1800s and 1900s. ... It was kind of their summer camp area.
Fort Harney was a United States Army outpost in eastern Oregon named in honor of Brigadier General William S. Harney.Fort Harney was used as a supply depot and administrative headquarters from 1867 to 1880 during the Army's campaign against Northern Paiute bands in Eastern Oregon and the Bannock uprising in the same area.
The basin is the topographic drainage of McCully Creek. Several Alpine Huts and campsite are located throughout the McCully Basin, which are used as a base camp in the winter for telemark skiing. [5] McCully Basin starts at the wilderness boundary and runs north–south towards Big Sheep Creek and Tenderfoot Wagon Road. [5]
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, built 1753, is the oldest Quaker meeting house in Westchester County, New York, a stop on the Underground Railroad and a birthplace of the abolitionist movement in New York. [1] In 1776 it would serve as a hospital for Continental Army soldiers injured at the nearby Battle of White Plains. [2]
The Old Chappaqua Historic District is located along Quaker Road (New York State Route 120) in the town of New Castle, New York, United States, between the hamlets of Chappaqua and Millwood. It was the original center of Chappaqua, prior to the construction of the New York and Harlem Railroad and the erection of its station to the south in the ...