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Rogue - Applegate Chapter, NSDAR
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Caveman Bridge in Grants Pass, Oregon
Located in Grants Pass, Oregon, the Rogue-Applegate Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR), was created when the Rogue River and Applegate Trail Chapters merged in 2018. The organization meeting took place on April 30, 2018 with the Organizing Regent, Ms. Barbara Johnson, presiding and the merge was confirmed on June 5, 2018.
Both of the merged chapters were located in Grants Pass, Oregon. The Rogue River Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on February 28, 1934, with Mrs. G. A. Johnson as Chapter Regent and twelve chapter members. The Applegate Trail, NSDAR, was organized on April 17, 2010, with Diana Hale as Chapter Regent and twenty-one chapter members.
The Hudson Bay Company hunters and trappers traveled through the Rogue Valley following the Siskiyou Trail, but there doesn’t seem to be any indication that any of them settled in the area. It is believed that the Elkton and Drain areas were the farthest south any of them settled before the laying out of the Applegate Trail. The Applegate Trail was blazed by brothers Jesse and Lindsay Applegate along with Levi Scott and twelve other men in the Spring of 1846, and served as an alternate route for pioneers traveling west to Oregon. Charles Applegate stayed home to keep all three family farms running while Lindsay was gone.Grants Pass started out as a stagecoach stop in the 1860s, and later became a rail head for the Oregon-California Railroad, then Southern Pacific. It is currently believed to be Union Pacific. The town was named to honor General Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg victory in 1863. The town name originally included an apostrophe that was later dropped in the early 1900s.The city of Grants Pass was incorporated in 1887. The Oregon–Utah Sugar Company, financed by Charles W. Nibley, was created, leading to a sugar beet factory being built in Grants Pass in 1916. The lumber industry was the major employer for Grants Pass up until the early 1970s.Today, Grants Pass boasts a population nearing 40,000 and is known for its agreeable climate, rafting on the Rogue River, and caving the nearby Oregon Caves National Monument.
Many Rogue-Applegate Daughters not only enjoy Revolutionary War Patriot ancestry but are also direct descendants of early Oregon pioneers including the Applegate family legacy.
Both of the merged chapters were located in Grants Pass, Oregon. The Rogue River Chapter, NSDAR, was organized on February 28, 1934, with Mrs. G. A. Johnson as Chapter Regent and twelve chapter members. The Applegate Trail, NSDAR, was organized on April 17, 2010, with Diana Hale as Chapter Regent and twenty-one chapter members.
The Hudson Bay Company hunters and trappers traveled through the Rogue Valley following the Siskiyou Trail, but there doesn’t seem to be any indication that any of them settled in the area. It is believed that the Elkton and Drain areas were the farthest south any of them settled before the laying out of the Applegate Trail. The Applegate Trail was blazed by brothers Jesse and Lindsay Applegate along with Levi Scott and twelve other men in the Spring of 1846, and served as an alternate route for pioneers traveling west to Oregon. Charles Applegate stayed home to keep all three family farms running while Lindsay was gone.Grants Pass started out as a stagecoach stop in the 1860s, and later became a rail head for the Oregon-California Railroad, then Southern Pacific. It is currently believed to be Union Pacific. The town was named to honor General Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg victory in 1863. The town name originally included an apostrophe that was later dropped in the early 1900s.The city of Grants Pass was incorporated in 1887. The Oregon–Utah Sugar Company, financed by Charles W. Nibley, was created, leading to a sugar beet factory being built in Grants Pass in 1916. The lumber industry was the major employer for Grants Pass up until the early 1970s.Today, Grants Pass boasts a population nearing 40,000 and is known for its agreeable climate, rafting on the Rogue River, and caving the nearby Oregon Caves National Monument.
Many Rogue-Applegate Daughters not only enjoy Revolutionary War Patriot ancestry but are also direct descendants of early Oregon pioneers including the Applegate family legacy.
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