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marker has been placed on the south side of the Pacific Highway at the site of the stockade. When Rogue River Valley settlers gathered in one of these stockades, they called it "forting up." Fort Briggs, Josephine County. In January, 1944, James T. Chinnock of Grants Pass wrote the compiler as follows: "Fort Briggs was on the George E. Briggs donation land claim in section 35, township 39 south, range 8 west, near Sucker Creek. This was a log house in the Illinois Valley at which settlers gathered during the Rogue River War of 1855-56. Briggs was a pioneer settler."

FORT CLATSOP, Clatsop County. This was the first military establishment to be built in Oregon, and it served as the Lewis and Clark winter-quarters for 1805-06. The various factors which influenced the selection of a locality for winter-quarters are mentioned in ThwaitesOriginal Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, volume III, page 246, et seq. The men were allowed to vote on the location. Lewis made a reconnaissance, and on December 5, 1805, rejoined Clark, reporting that he had found a good situation. Construction of a stockade about 50 feet square was started at once. This was built around seven cabins. On January 1, 1806, Captain Lewis recorded in his orderly book that the fort was completed, and the first orders for its operation and security were officially issued on that date. The name Fort Clatsop is not given in the orders, but appears later in the journals. The party left the fort on the return trip at 1 P.M., Sunday, March 23, 1806. On March 20, Lewis wrote: "we have lived quite as comfortable as we had any reason to expect we should." The site of Fort Clatsop, three acres of land, is now owned by the Oregon Historical Society and is marked. It is about three-quarters of a mile south of the Oregon Coast Highway, just west of Lewis and Clark River and is easily accessible by road. Postal records show that Fort Clatsop post office was established November 10, 1852, with Thos.W. Shane first postmaster. Carlos W. Shane was a prominent pioneer of this locality, and it is possible that the authorities misread his name and put it down Thos. Franklin Shane became postmaster on February 18, 1854. The office was discontinued on February 15, 1855. The office was in service again with other postmasters from March, 1876, to September, 1881. The name of the office established in 1852 is very indistinct in early postal records, and may in fact be Port Clatsop. In view of the fact that the Shanes lived at Fort Clatsop and also in view of the name used for the office in 1876, the compiler thinks that the style Fort Clatsop is correct. The locality could hardly be called a port.

FORT DALLES, Wasco County. Fort Dalles was a regular military post used during various Indian disturbances from 1850 to 1866. It was situated on Mill Creek, in the west part of the community of The Dalles, and before it was abandoned, it had developed into a commodious post. Fort Lee was established at The Dalles in the fall of 1847 at the time of the Cayuse War, but it had nothing to do with Fort Dalles. In May of 1850 Colonel W. W. Loring, then stationed at Vancouver, sent two companies of the Mounted Rifles to The Dalles to establish a supply depot. Heitman, in the Historical Register, says the post was first called Camp Drum. This was apparently to commemorate Captain Simon Henry Drum, who was killed in the assault on the City of Mexico, September 13, 1847. For information about Fort Dalles, see Illustrated History of Central Oregon, pages 102-105. The first buildings were of logs, but some