Pocahontas, Baker County, Oregon
Pocahontas: The Chandler Wagon Train arrived in Powder Valley in 1862 and settled Pine City at the base of the Elkhorn Mountains. The settlement was later moved a bit down the mountain and renamed Pocahontas. The Chandler Cabin is now located in Haines.
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Pocahontas School Site The site of the second School in Baker county, 1862. A log building near the old Dave Kelly Place. It was the first school taught in Baker Valley. Miss Chandler, daughter of Charles Chandler of Wingville taught the fall of 1862-1863. A frame building was erected by subscriptions in 1882. Bill Kilbourne deeded that land to the school. Bick Ison was then the teacher. School building burned in 1955. |
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