Williamson-Abbot Expedition Ponderosa
Posted on: May 2nd, 2022 in Heritage Tree Details |
Whispering Pines Horse Camp – Tree locaiton
In the 1850s, at the request of Congress, several expeditions were launched to survey possible railway routes to connect the Pacific Ocean with the Mississippi River. Under this directive, then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later president of the Confederacy), charged Lieutenants Robert Stockton Williamson and Henry Larcom Abbot with surveying a possible route between Fort Reading, California, and Portland, Oregon, either through …