{"id":2693,"date":"2015-01-01T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tule-lake.com\/?page_id=2693"},"modified":"2015-02-06T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:59:29","slug":"1840-1859","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anderstomlinson.com\/tule-lake\/towns\/history-timelines\/1840-1859\/","title":{"rendered":"1840 -1859"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company<\/span>
\n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>… Transportation, Logging. Railroads, Power, Communications, Mining<\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 \u00a0… Reclamation, Farming, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake <\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Klamath Falls, Jacksonville, Medford, Ashland<\/span>
\n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Indians, Klamath & Yainax Agency, Chiloquin, Spring Creek, Sprague<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n1840<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Population of the United States is 17,069,453\u2028.
    \n1841<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Wilkes expedition at Willamette Falls.
    \n1843 <\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Klamath Indians are observed hunting elk along the western side of Upper Klamath Lake.
    \n\u2022 John C. Fr\u00e9mont and Kit Carson pass through the Upper Klamath Basin.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> The \u201cGreat Migration\u201d to Oregon for homesteaders begins. A wagon train with 875 settlers including the Applegate Brothers and Peter Burnett, who would become the first Oregon Governor, leaves Independence, Missour for Oregon. The Applegates both lose a son in rafting accidents on Columbia River rapids.
    \n\u2022 Joel P. Walker brings 1200 cattle, 200 horses and 600 sheep from California to Oregon.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Forty-two free agent mountain men, led by Old Bill Williams, spend the winter trapping around Upper Klamath Lake. They has contact but no problems with the Klamath Indians camped ten miles to the north.
    \n\u2022 Last mention of Finan McDonald in this area.
    \n1844<\/span> <\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Remains of Ancient Modoc Lake totals 360,000 acres.
    \n\u2022 Pierson Redding receives a 20,000 acre Mexican land north of Sutter\u2019s grant. Present day Redding is located here.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> William Shirley Williams, George Perkins, Bill Hamilton and 39 other men had a confrontation with 200 Modoc Indians near Lost River.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Spring, Old Bill William\u2019s trapping party breaks winter camp and heads south to the Lost River. Modoc Indians attack but suffer heavy causalities. The trappers lose three men. \u201c\u2026 here as the greatest contrast between two tribes (Klamath and Modoc), living in close proximity to each other.\u201d
    \n1845<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Minimum bridge width in Oregon is 12 feet
    \n1846<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 May 1, Fr\u00e9mont camps on edge of Tule Lake which he named Rhett Lake.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u2022<\/span><\/strong> May 6 or 9, Three of Fr\u00e9mont\u2019s men are killed by Indians at Denny Creek.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Fr\u00e9mont retaliates by attacking a Klamath Tribe fishing village named Dokdokwas, that most likely had nothing to do with the attack, at the junction of the Williamson River and Klamath Lake, killing 14 Indians including warriors, women and children.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Free Emigrant road or South Emigrant Road, Applegate Trail, opens.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> The southern Oregon Trail opened.
    \n\u2022 England and the United States agree that the fourty-ninth parallel will be the boundary between the two powers.
    \n\u2022 1846-47: Winter, Donner party is trapped in the Sierras.
    \n1848<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 January 24, carpenters from Oregon, James Marshall and Charles Bennet, discover gold at Sutter\u2019s Mill.
    \n\u2022 First Chinese immigrants arrive in present day California.
    \n\u2022 Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo signed, California ceded from Mexico, California Republic established.
    \n\u2022 Pierson Redding discovers gold in the present day Trinity County area near Douglas City
    \n1849-50:<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Gold discovered in the Lower Klamath Basin. Farms and ranches established in the Scott and Shasta valleys.
    \n1850<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Oregon\u2019s population is 13,294. United States population is 23,191,876.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Congress creates the post of Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> The Spanish Central America project, stalled, carries out surveys (also 1875) to find the best place for the canal. They suggested the most favorable routes were Panama (then a part of Colombia) and across Nicaragua.
    \n1851<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 April, 2,000 miners had arrived in \u201cThompson\u2019s Dry Diggings\u201d through the southern route of the old Emigrant Trail to test their luck, which took them straight through Modoc territory.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> 1851-56: Southern Oregon Indians begin fighting with white settlers coming for gold. This starts the Rogue River Indian wars.
    \n\u2022 December, gold is discovered in Rich Gulch and the area quickly becomes Jacksonville. Abraham Thompson, a mule train packer, discovers gold near Yreka traveling along the Siskiyou Trail.
    \n1852<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Jacksonville is founded.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> A pack route is found from Crescent City to the Rogue Valley.
    \n\u2022 The number of Chinese immigrants on the west coast increases to 18,000.
    \n\u2022 Wallace Baldwin was pasturing livestock in the Keno area.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> September, a wagon train of some 65 men, women, and children on their way to new homes in California are attacked. Fifty-five whites die at the hands of Modoc Indians at Tule Lake at location that becomes known as \u201cBloody Point\u201d. More bodies go uncounted and some survivors may have been kidnapped and sold as slaves.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Ben Wright leads a volunteer company in reprisal for the wagon train ambush. He entices a party of Modocs into council under a flag of truce. 41 Indians are murder by poisoned food.
    \n\u2022\u2022<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong> Sherman Brown traveled by ship to Panama, crossed the isthmus by mule and on to San Francisco by ship.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Winter, Wallace Baldwin grazes fifty horses on the west side of Upper Klamath Lake.
    \n1853<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Sam Colver was appointed Indian agent for the rogue River Indians by Superintendent Joel Palmer.
    \n\u2022 <\/span><\/strong> November 25, Fr\u00e9mont travel south from The Dalles along the Klamath Trail, a slave trading path connecting the Columbia River to the southern border of present day Oregon.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> June 12, Crater Lake is discovered by prospectors, the John Hillman party, in search of the Lost cabin gold mine.
    \n\u2022 First Jacksonville school. Mart Hoffman was the teacher of 20 pupils. Tuition paid with poultry, produce and livestock.
    \n1854<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 September, first recorded non-native ascent of 14,162 Mt. Shasta.
    \n1855<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Klamath River Reservation established on the Lower Klamath River.
    \n\u2022 Lt. R.S. Williamson passes through the Upper Klamath Basin.
    \n\u2022\u00a01855-69: tree ring studies indicate Upper Klamath Basin precipitation was above normal.
    \n\u2022 August 18, 2nd Lt. Henry Abbott of the US Topographic Engineers writes of Upper Klamath Lake\u2019s dark colored water with a disagreeable taste.
    \n\u2022 A total of 7,437 settlers have filed on 2.8 million acres in Oregon.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> August, Lt. Henry L. Abbot, a member of the Pacific Railroad Survey, spends 19 days with the Klamath Indians.
    \n1856<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 Judge Frederick Adams wintered 2000 head of cattle in Keno area.
    \n\u2022 First permanent Jacksonville school house.
    \n\u2022\u2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong> Mrs. Sherman Brown and three children, George, Louisa and Daniel, travel by ship to Panama, crossed the isthmus on the new railroad and then sailed to San Francisco.
    \n1857<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022 April 30, Martin Frain, fur trader, camps and establishes first trading post on Link River.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> Big Jack Montgomery was robbed of $500,000 of gold at Jackson Creek on his run to Portland with his ten horse team.
    \n1859<\/span><\/strong>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> The Siskiyou tollgate, \u201cDollarhide Station\u201d opens.
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong> A man name Ledford and four others are killed by Indians at Rancharee Prairie. Jacksonville residents as La-Lakes, the Klamath Village Chief, to punish the murders. La-Lakes brings to Jacksonville the heads of three offenders.
    \n\u2022 February 14, \u2013 Oregon becomes a state.\n<\/ol>\n

    \u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Rocky Point, Upper Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Klamath Development Company<\/span>
    \n\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>… Transportation, Logging. Railroads, Power, Communications, Mining<\/span><\/span>
    \n\u2022 \u00a0… Reclamation, Farming, Merrill, Malin, Tulelake <\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Klamath Falls, Jacksonville, Medford, Ashland<\/span>
    \n\u2022<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0… Indians, Klamath & Yainax Agency, Chiloquin, Spring Creek, Sprague<\/span><\/p>\n

      \n

      \"upper<\/a><\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: Before 1500<\/strong><\/a> … Islands, Mountains, and People<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1500 – 1839<\/strong><\/a> … England, Spain, Russia<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1840 – 1859<\/strong><\/a> … Trappers, Gold and Trails<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1860 – 1869<\/strong><\/a> … Applegates and Captain Jack<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1870 – 1879<\/strong><\/a> … Strongholds and Swamplands<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1880 – 1889<\/strong><\/a> … Klamath County and Newspapers<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1890 – 1899<\/strong><\/a> … Merrill, Flour and Potatoes.<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1900 – 1909<\/strong><\/a> … Steamboats and Locomotives<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1910 – 1919<\/strong><\/a> … Automobiles and Movies<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1920 – 1929<\/strong><\/a> … Recreation and Refuge<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1930 – 1939<\/strong><\/a> … Depression, Sporting and Tulelake<\/p>\n

      \u2022<\/strong> Klamath Basin Timeline: 1940 – 1949<\/strong><\/a> … Internment and Homesteading<\/p>\n

      \"klamath<\/a><\/p>\n

      1900 – 1949<\/strong><\/a>… Automobiles, Reclamations, Trains, Farming<\/p>\n

      1950 – 1999<\/strong><\/a>… Timber, Ranches, Boomers<\/p>\n

      2000 – Present<\/strong><\/a>… Legislation, Court decisions, Science Studies<\/p>\n

      Modoc Indian War<\/strong><\/a>… Indians, Settlers, U.S. Army<\/p>\n

      Acknowledgements<\/span><\/strong>
      \nBill and LoEtta Cadman, Ina and Roy Reed, Pat McMillian, William Brady,
      \nAndrew Ortis, John Pratt, Art Eggleston, Rob Crawford \u2013 Crawford Farms,
      \nBev Wampler, Gayle and Chuck Jaynes, Richard Kopczak and
      \nCindy Wright are some of the many folks that allowed access to their
      \nlibraries and, or, shared information to help Anders compile
      \nthe above timelines.<\/em><\/p>\n

      \u00a9 2014 Anders Tomlinson, all rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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