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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Coryell Pass". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
- ^ a b c Fletcher, Marie (June 22, 1941). "Pioneer Memorials Described as Pageant Approaches". Register-Guard.
- ^ "National Old Trails Road Committee". Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 26. Daughters of the American Revolution: 1077–1078. 1917.
- ^ Query, Charles F. (2008). A History of Oregon Ferries since 1826. Bend, Oregon: Maverick Books. p. 104.
- ^ "The Coryells". Lane County Historian. 6 (4). Lane County Pioneer-Historical Society: 74. December 1961.
External links
edit- Images of the Coryell Pass marker from the University of Oregon Libraries