Fort Hoskins LbNA #17487 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Aug 16, 2005 |
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| City: | Kings Valley |
| County: | Benton |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | RatPac  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | a |
| Last edited: | Aug 16, 2005 |
THE BOX SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN A CONTROLED BURN. I DO PLAN ON REPLACING IT.
The following was taken from http://linnhistory.peak.org/military/fthoskins.html
Fort Hoskins is located on Hoskins Road, 1.5 miles west of Kings Valley Hwy. 223, 12 miles northwest of Philomath Hwy. 20, Benton County, Oregon.
Extracted from:
Lords of Themselves
A History of Eastern Lincoln County, Oregon
By M. Constance Hodges, 1978 (book is out of print)
Fort Hoskins
"We crossed the divide the next day, and struck the head of the Yaquina River, running to the Pacific. We passed the old trail made by General Phil Sheridan in 1857, from Fort Hoskins to the Siletz agency. The path is overgrown; some beavers had thrown their dam across the little stream that ran close by, and had overflowed the road, and turned it into ready swamp. Fort Hoskins has been long ago Abandoned, and wheat is growing on the parade ground. There is no hostile Indian within hundreds of miles, and certainly no fear on the settlers part of the remnants of the scattered tribes now settled on the Siletz reservation, which provide at hay time and wheat harvest much needed help to the white men farming all around."
This is how Wallis Nash described the site of the somewhat infamous military post in his book, OREGON THERE AND BACK IN 1877.
The remains of Fort Hoskins are nestled in a hollow at the edge of the Coast Range, just where the mountains merge with the level flood plain of the Willamette River. The fort was built to skirt the western edge of the newly created Coast Range Indian Reservation. It was established on the Luckiamute River overlooking Kings Valley near the mouth of what is now Bonner Creek, on July 26, 1856. Fort Hoskins, named for Lieutenant Charles Hoskins who had been killed in the battle of Monterey, Mexico ten years previously, is about twenty-two miles from Corvallis by now existing roads.
The purpose of the fort was to guard the pass through the Coast Range between the Willamette Valley and the concentration of Indians at the Siletz Agency.
The sight is now a Benton County Park. To find the box go to the park (duh) and follow the trail. When you read about the railroad, look up and find a stump with a fence post laying across it. The fence post points to another stump off to the right. Behind that stump, under some bark, you will find Ft. Hoskins.
The following was taken from http://linnhistory.peak.org/military/fthoskins.html
Fort Hoskins is located on Hoskins Road, 1.5 miles west of Kings Valley Hwy. 223, 12 miles northwest of Philomath Hwy. 20, Benton County, Oregon.
Extracted from:
Lords of Themselves
A History of Eastern Lincoln County, Oregon
By M. Constance Hodges, 1978 (book is out of print)
Fort Hoskins
"We crossed the divide the next day, and struck the head of the Yaquina River, running to the Pacific. We passed the old trail made by General Phil Sheridan in 1857, from Fort Hoskins to the Siletz agency. The path is overgrown; some beavers had thrown their dam across the little stream that ran close by, and had overflowed the road, and turned it into ready swamp. Fort Hoskins has been long ago Abandoned, and wheat is growing on the parade ground. There is no hostile Indian within hundreds of miles, and certainly no fear on the settlers part of the remnants of the scattered tribes now settled on the Siletz reservation, which provide at hay time and wheat harvest much needed help to the white men farming all around."
This is how Wallis Nash described the site of the somewhat infamous military post in his book, OREGON THERE AND BACK IN 1877.
The remains of Fort Hoskins are nestled in a hollow at the edge of the Coast Range, just where the mountains merge with the level flood plain of the Willamette River. The fort was built to skirt the western edge of the newly created Coast Range Indian Reservation. It was established on the Luckiamute River overlooking Kings Valley near the mouth of what is now Bonner Creek, on July 26, 1856. Fort Hoskins, named for Lieutenant Charles Hoskins who had been killed in the battle of Monterey, Mexico ten years previously, is about twenty-two miles from Corvallis by now existing roads.
The purpose of the fort was to guard the pass through the Coast Range between the Willamette Valley and the concentration of Indians at the Siletz Agency.
The sight is now a Benton County Park. To find the box go to the park (duh) and follow the trail. When you read about the railroad, look up and find a stump with a fence post laying across it. The fence post points to another stump off to the right. Behind that stump, under some bark, you will find Ft. Hoskins.