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 Gold Discovery Site - Jacksonville, Oregon Posted by:  ddtfamily
N 42° 18.705 W 122° 58.258
10T E 502392 N 4684390
Site of gold discovery in Jacksonville, Oregon
Waymark Code: WMJPFA
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2013
Views: 3
"In Jackson Creek at JACKSONVILLE, 34.9 m. (1,600 alt, 806 pop.) in January, 1852, James Cluggage and J. R. Poole discovered gold. Now untrimmed trees, dropping low over moss-grown houses and crumbling brick buildings, line streets once noisy with the tramp of miners' feet, or shrill with the chatter of pig-tailed Orientals." -Oregon: End of the Trail, 1940
While it is now unlikely to observe streets "shrill with the chatter of pig-tailed Orientals" (we can forgive the vernacular of the Guide book era), the site of gold discovery is now marked by a monument that reads:
RICH GULCH
GOLD FOUND HERE
DEC. 1851 BY
JAMES GLUGGAGE
JOHN R. POOLE. |
The marker misspells "Cluggage" as "Gluggage" but it has become a sort of historic landmark in it's own right, placed here in 1960. Atop the monument is a large piece of quartz. Behind it, a wooden sign reads "GOLD FIRST FOUND HERE 1851."
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Book: Oregon: End of the Trail
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 327
Year Originally Published: 1940
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