When the wagon train carrying James and Margaret Savage paused on a slope facing the Pacific highway east of Grants pass and a
a quarter of a mile from the Savage Rapid Damn, she claimed this was going to be her home and that her husband needed to get busy and build a cabin. The wagon train helped him, and that began their home where 13 children were born.
City
Grants Pass
Location
Vertical File Biographies, Savage
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