Henri
de Montmorency,
JCSA E.V.P. June
2006 Newsletter
As many of us know, the Historic
Applegate Trail
was
in our area, but few knew exactly where. Volunteer
surveyors
from the Hugo Neighborhood Historical Society were at JCSA
recently.
Their project is to roughly lay out where the Applegate Trail was
located.
In the months to come, a certified surveyor will be called in to map
the
trail’s exact location.
Mike Walker, the spokesman from the Hugo Soc., informed me their part
of
the trail to document stretches for about 20 miles.
Of that
distance approximately 90% is located on private property and getting
permission
to cross this property has been mostly
non-existent. As
JCSA
is public property, it's turning out we are becoming the main focus of
this 20 mile section.
Mike Walker, Kelly Rarey and Karen Rose, all from the Hugo Historic
Soc.
were guest speakers on Friday, June 2nd when Walker Mountain Long
Rifles
held their annual BBQ. They presented maps, read
from a
diary
of an Applegate pioneer and gave a brief talk on where the trail
was.
Needless to say, they were the highlight of the evening.
The trail enters onto JCSA property approximately at our front gate,
comes
across Archery Range 2 and then straight up our road next to the
pond.
From there it follows just about where our road is from the Range House
down to Trader’s Row, then bending in the lower meadow and
heading
toward
Mt. Sexton. A temporary stake with an orange flag
on it has
been erected on Archery Range 2 and a second one, just a few yards down
the road from the shower rooms.
We have been discussing that someday when this project is completed, we
hopefully will be able to have a monument erected on JCSA property in
commemoration
of this part of the Applegate Trail in Oregon's historic past.
JCSA 
