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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="040c8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> <B>Use the arrows to navigate through the pictures.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#0066CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Small Town Oregon     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Small Town Oregon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="16">     <A HREF="id771.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Antique Store"><U><IMG SRC="04610100.png" border=0 width="16" height="16" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>     <A HREF="id773.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Another History Marker"><U><IMG SRC="04710100.png" border=0 width="16" height="16" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>     <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coburg"><U><IMG SRC="048100e0.png" border=0 width="16" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> </div> <div> History Marker</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e673dae0.jpg" border=0 width="573" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>      In 1847, John Damond and Jocob Spores, pioneers and adventureres, left Chicago for Oregon to take </div> <div> advantage of the Donation Land Act.  Spores staked claim near the banks of the McKenzie River </div> <div> and the bachelor Diamond settled on a site that is present-day Coburg.  Spores would run the first </div> <div> local ferry service across the river--with two canoes lashed together!</div> <div>      Diamond and Spores founded the area's first sawmill in 1855 on a stream of the McKenzie though </div> <div> it washed away in the floor of 1861.  The graves of Diamond, Spores, and other Coburg pioneers can be </div> <div> found in the IOOF cemetery, just south of town, across from Egge Sand and Gravel.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>