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Orford. See under Fort Point. For Tichenor's account of the establishment of the civilian fort, see Dodge's Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, chapter II. The army post was a few hundred feet northwest of the civilian Fort Orford. The civilian fort was destroyed by the Port Orford fire of October 10, 1868. Fort Point, Curry County. Fort Point is at the south edge of the town of Port Orford, overlooking the ocean. It is just northwest of the famous Battle Rock. On July 14, 1851, Captain William Tichenor's second expedition landed at Port Orford and built two blockhouses on Fort Point, with log defenses. This establishment was built as a place of refuge for local settlers. The government, on September 14, 1851, established the military post of Fort Orford, but this was in addition to the original blockhouses. The blockhouse fort was destroyed in the fire that burned Port Orford October 10, 1868. Fort ROCK, Lake County. This is a rocky landmark. There is a post office of the same name nearby. The rock is an isolated mass, imperfectly crescent shaped, nearly one-third of a mile across, and its highest point is about 325 feet above the floor of the plain on which it stands. It has perpendicular cliffs 200 feet high in places. It is not surprising that it has been likened to a fort, An item in the Bend Bulletin, June 20, 1925, says that William Sullivan, an early resident, named Fort Rock. Sullivan settled in what is now Lake County in 1873.

FORT ROWLAND, Coos County. William Rowland settled on South Fork Coquille River in 1853, on what is now known as Rowland Prairie, and his place was used as a settlers defense headquarters against the Indians in the fall of 1855. The stockade was called Fort Rowland. For information about Fort Rowland and William Rowland, see Dodge's Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, pages 97-100 and 187. See also Victor's Early Indian Wars of Oregon, page 374. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Powers, well-known residents of Coos County, owned the Rowland property in 1945. According to Mrs. Powers the Rowland home was on the Rowland donation land claim in the southwest quarter of section 27, township 30 south, range 12 west, close to the line of the Robert Y. Phillips claim.

FORT SMITH, Douglas County. Fort Smith was a post used by the Oregon Volunteers during the Rogue River War of 1855-56. See Victor's Early Indian Wars of Oregon, page 368. It was at the place of William Henry Smith on Cow Creek. It was near the southwest corner of section 25, township 32 south, range 6 west, and about four miles up Cow Creek from the present town of Glendale, close to the Pacific Highway. Avail. able records do not describe any defenses, although there may have been a stockade

FORT STEVENS, Clatsop County. Isaac Ingalls Stevens was governor of Washington Territory, 1853-57, and delegate to Congress, 1857-61. He was killed while leading the Seventy-ninth Regiment New York Volunteers, at Chantilly, Virginia, against the Confederates, September 1, 1862. He was major-general, and had seized the colors of the regiment after the color-sergeant had fallen. Governor Stevens was highly energetic and constantly active, and was very popular with the people of the territory. He was born at Andover, Massachusetts, March 18, 1818. In 1839 he was graduated from West Point. He served with distinction in the war with Mexico. The route of his journey to the territory in 1853, laid