DAR Coryell Pass Marker Eugene Oregon 1917

Coryell Pass is a gap located near

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Lane County, Oregon Lane County is one of the Oregon counties, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 382,971, making it the fourth-most populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Eugene, ...

, United States. Its low point is located near the confluence of the Coast Fork and Middle Fork of the

Willamette River The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward ...

. The gap is formed by the river between Eugene's South Hills and Springfield's Quarry Butte.

Interstate 5 in Oregon Interstate 5 (I-5) in the U.S. state of Oregon is a major Interstate Highway that traverses the state from north to south. It travels to the west of the Cascade Mountains, connecting Portland to Salem, Eugene, Medford, and other major cit ...

intersects OR 225 at Coryell Pass.

Marker

The pass is commemorated by a brass marker located on Franklin Boulevard, on what was formerly the route of Pacific Highway. The marker, which was placed by the

Daughters of the American Revolution The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. A non-p ...

(D.A.R.), reads "Coryell Pass, Oregon Trail, 1846, Erected by Oregon

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Chapter D.A.R., 1917". The pass was on the southern route of the

Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and Westward Expansion Trails, emigrant trail in North America that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what ...

blazed by

Jesse Applegate Jesse Applegate (July 5, 1811 – April 22, 1888) was an American pioneer who led a large group of settlers along the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. He was an influential member of the early government of Oregon, and helped establish the ...

and known as the

Applegate Trail The Applegate Trail was an emigrant trail through the present-day U.S. states of Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon used in the mid-19th century by emigrants on the American frontier. It was originally intended as a less dangerous alternati ...

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

pioneers as a campsite.

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Images of the Coryell Pass marker
from the University of Oregon Libraries {{coord, 44.0229030, -123.0273065, type:landmark_region:US-OR, display=title Geography of Lane County, Oregon Mountain passes of Oregon

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