Sign at start of Huntington Road Interpretive Trail.
Marker Name: Huntington Road
Marker Text: Before you lies a one mile segment of historic wagon road known as the “Huntington Road”. In 1864, J.W. Perit Huntington, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, guided a party to Fort Klamath to make peace with the Klamath, Modoc and some of the Paiute Indian Tribes. A peace treaty was signed and the Klamath Reservation was established in 1866 with headquarters at Klamath Agency. By the terms of the “Indian Treaty of 1864”, the U.S. Government was required to provide the Indians with certain supplies. In the fall of 1867, J.W. Perit Huntington guided a wagon train loaded with supplies from The Dalles to Fort Klamath, creating the Huntington Road. The party consisted of 70 men including teamsters, soldiers and Indian scouts.
It is probable that members of the Lost Meek Wagon Train passed over this portion of the Huntington Road in 1845 as they crossed the juniper desert on their way to the Willamette Valley.
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