Ft. Lane National Register SOHS involvement
National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form:
Name: Fort Lane Site, Location, Classification, Owner of Property = Jackson County
included: Fort Lane Ad Hoc Committee Report of March 1987, Southern Oregon Historical Society charged them to prepare recommendations for the preservation and development of the Fort Lane property.
Fort Lane Site was occupied by US Army from 1853-1856, located NW of Central Point, OR with the site comprising a small portion of the original 640 acre military reserve set apart by the US government in 1853. note: map drawn in August, 1855 by US Army Inspector JKF Mansfield indicated 18 log structures with fort compound oriented in a northerly direction, including officers' quarters, a hospital, guard house, store, commissary, smith's shop, soldiers' quarters and kitchens with the flag staff at the northern edge of the grounds (no physical remains of these structures remain (stones may indicate original building locations) Ft. Lane was built on settler Peninger's land -- during Indian troubles of 1853 all the Peninger property was burned and fort was built on their land.