The Coos Bay Wagon Road or Coos Bay Military Wagon Road was a pioneer road in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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that connected
Douglas County to
Coos Bay
Coos Bay is an estuary where the Coos River enters the Pacific Ocean, the estuary is approximately 12 miles long and up to two miles wide. It is the largest estuary completely within Oregon state lines. The Coos Bay watershed covers an area of abou ...
starting in 1872.
Travelers on the road could start in either
Tenmile or
Lookingglass near
Roseburg. The route passed through
Reston,
Sitkum,
Dora,
McKinley, and
Fairview, ending in
Sumner
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south of Coos Bay. Eventually the road was continued to
Eastside, now a neighborhood of Coos Bay.
The road follows the
East Fork Coquille River
The East Fork Coquille River is a tributary, about long, of the North Fork Coquille River in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins near Bennett Rock in Douglas County in the Southern Oregon Coast Range. The map includes mile markers along the ma ...
from near the
Coos/Douglas county line to Dora.
See also
*
Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands
*
Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road
The Stone Bridge is a causeway built by the United States Army in 1867. It crosses the marshy channel that connects Hart Lake and Crump Lake in a remote area of Lake County in eastern Oregon, United States. It was later incorporated into the O ...
References
External links
Images along Coos Bay Wagon Roadfrom Flickr
Transportation in Coos County, Oregon
Transportation in Douglas County, Oregon
Historic trails and roads in Oregon
1872 establishments in Oregon
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