Fort Lane
Fort Lane is a historic military fort in Oregon built in 1853 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site is marked by a monument placed along Gold Ray Road in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is now managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
The fort was established in 1853 under Captain Andrew Jackson Smith's command to control the region during the Rogue River War. It later served as a holding facility for Native Americans before being abandoned in 1856.
The site is visible from Gold Ray Road, though binoculars or a camera zoom lens can help with viewing. The interior is closed to visitors to protect artifacts, but the monument and plaque are accessible from the road.
Joseph Lane, whom the fort was named after, negotiated a peace treaty with the Takelma, Latgawa, Shasta, and Athabaskan peoples in the same year the fort was founded. Just two years later, a settler attack sparked violence that quickly shattered this fragile agreement.
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