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FORT BRIGGS
Fort Briggs is located just outside of Cave Junction, Josephine County, Oregon.
George Edwin Briggs settled there in 1854 and built a substantial log house.
With the start of the Indian Wars in 1855, a stockade was built around the
house and served as a shelter for local residents, somtimes housing 60 or 70
people. There was never any military there. Fort Briggs burned to the ground
in February, 1908.
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