Coryell Pass

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Marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution at Coryell Pass in 1917

Coryell Pass is a gap located near Eugene in Lane County, Oregon, United States, near the confluence of the Coast Fork and Middle Fork of the Willamette River. [1] The gap is formed by the river between Eugene's South Hills and Springfield's Quarry Butte. The pass is commemorated by a brass marker located on Franklin Boulevard, on what was formerly the route of Pacific Highway. [2] The marker, which was placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), reads "Coryell Pass, Oregon Trail, 1846, Erected by Oregon Lewis and Clark Chapter D.A.R., 1917". [3] The pass was on the southern route of the Oregon Trail blazed by Jesse Applegate and known as the Applegate Trail.

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One of earliest ferries in Oregon was operated here beginning in 1847 by Abraham Coryell and his son Lewis. [4] [5] Pioneer Elijah Bristow had passed this way in 1846, and later the Coryells settled there. [2] The site had a spring and was used by Oregon Trail pioneers as a campsite. [2]

Elijah Bristow (1788–1872) was the first white settler to stake a claim and build a permanent cabin in 1846 in the upper Willamette Valley, in what is now Lane County, Oregon, United States. He and his wife Susannah Gabbert Bristow established the first church and donated land for the first school in Pleasant Hill.

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References

  1. ↑ "Coryell Pass". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Fletcher, Marie (June 22, 1941). "Pioneer Memorials Described as Pageant Approaches". Register-Guard .
  3. ↑ "National Old Trails Road Committee". Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution. 26: 1077–1078. 1917.
  4. ↑ Query, Charles F. (2008). A History of Oregon Ferries since 1826. Bend, Oregon: Maverick Books. p. 104.
  5. ↑ "The Coryells". Lane County Historian. Lane County Pioneer-Historical Society. 6 (4): 74. December 1961.

Coordinates: 44°01′22″N123°01′38″W / 44.0229030°N 123.0273065°W / 44.0229030; -123.0273065

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