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1830s
1832 Mt. McLoughlin named by Donald McKay in honor of Dr. John McLoughlin who is affectionately known in the West as, “The Father of Oregon”. Locally, the mountain was first known as Mt. Pitt – a name many old timers still use.
March 29 1832 Birth of John Wesley Hillman in Albany, New York.
June 1835 or 1836. Nine American trappers, some with their Indian wives, pass through what is now Ashland, and camp at Rocky Point, near Gold Hill.
1837 Ewing Young, leader of American Trappers and several others pass through the Rogue Valley on a cattle buying expedition to California, return with 700 cattle. Ran into Indian trouble up on the Siskiyous.
1838 Another party of 15 men is attacked while crossing the Siskiyou Mountains, or “Boundary Ridge”, as it was called. One man was killed and two men die later from their wounds.
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