
Pioneer Park
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Volcanoguy
N 44° 18.152 W 120° 50.578
10T E 672058 N 4907738
Large rock monument in Pioneer Park in Prineville, Oregon.
Waymark Code: WM38TZ
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2008
Views: 5
Large rock monument in Pioneer Park in Prineville, Oregon.
Marker Name: Memorial
Marker Text: This Memorial was dedicated August 7, 1958 by the Crook County Pioneer Association in grateful rememberance of the heroic early settlers of the Central Oregon Country, whose bravery, intelligence and industry blazed the trail into this wilderness for advancing civilization and made possible its development.
Courageous in life were they and true our pioneers whose sun of life has set, today we pledge our love a new and say “we’ll not forget, no, not forget.”
The Ochoco Valley was first settled n 1867. Most of the Pioneers came from the Willamette Valley. Prineville was first settled in 1871.
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