200 million |
Oregon was under the ocean. North America broke away from Europe and has moved 1-2 inches to the West ever since. |
70,000-11,000 years ago |
Ice Age |
14,000-10,000 years ago |
Man arrived. Oakland area - Yoncalla Indians (Southernmost band of Kalapuya Indians) |
1500’s |
Spanish ships passed by mouth of the Umpqua River but did not stop. |
1791 |
American Brig, Jenny |
1792 |
English Captain Robert Gray |
1829 |
British botanist David Douglas visited the area |
1830 – 1833 |
Many Indians died from fever introduced by whites |
1832 |
Fort MacKay trading post established at junction of Kalapuya creek and Umpqua River |
1836 |
Hudson Bay Company built fort at Elkton |
1843 |
Settlers began arriving |
1850 |
Donation Land Claim Act |
1853 |
Winslow Powers obtained 320 acres DLC |
1854 |
Joseph Deardorff obtained 327.66 acres DLC |
1850 - 1856 |
Indian Uprising |
1856 |
Truce – Indians removed to Grand Ronde Reservation |
1859 |
Oregon became a State |
1859 |
Winslow Powers purchased Deardorff land, now having 647.66 acres |
18when? |
Historic house built on Deardorff Donation Land Claim (unknown exactly when or by whom) |
1850's |
Town of Oakland established |
1869 |
Transcontinental Railroad completed |
1870 |
Mildred Kanipe’s maternal grandparents, Thomas and Emily Baimbridge, arrived from England with 5 children and moved to English Settlement East of Oakland. |
May, 1872 |
Railroad arrived at Oakland, Oregon, from the north. (Town moved to be by railroad.) |
Oct, 1872 |
Railroad completed to Roseburg (ended there for 15 years)
|
1887 |
Railroad completed to California |
1872 |
Thomas Baimbridge rented Powers ranch |
1876 |
Sarah Alice Baimbridge born (Mildred Kanipe’s Mother) |
1878 |
Thomas Baimbridge purchased ranch |
1907 |
Mildred born in same house as her mother |
1907 |
Mildred’s mother died |
1933 |
Mildred purchased 167 acres (SW corner of park) |
1940 |
Mildred’s father passed away – Mildred inherited 290.77 acres (East side of park)
|
1949 |
Mildred purchased 633 acre Underwood ranch (connecting the two above parcels) |
1983 |
Mildred passed away leaving her 1,090.77 acre ranch to Douglas County for a park. |
1994 |
Douglas County dedicated park |
2005 |
Friends of Mildred Kanipe Park was formed |
2007 |
English Settlement School added to National Register of Historic Places |
2008 |
Baimbridge-Kanipe Farmstead Historic District added to National Register |