 The
first emigrant train over the "Southern Route" including
more than fifty wagons under the leadership of Captain Levi Scott
and David Goff, left the Oregon Trail at Fall Creek or Raft River
on the Snake River, August 10, 1846. The Klamath River was crossed
eight miles upstream from this sign on October 4, 1846. This trail,
roughly 680 miles, took fifty-six days of travel. Captain Scott, leading
the second emigrant train, found a new Klamath River crossing one-half
mile north of this sign, Oct. 11, 1847. This remained the chief ford
of the area until Brown's Ferry was established here in 1868. |
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