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LOCATION AND PROPERTY NAME
address: ADDRESS RESTRICTED historic name:McCoin, Julius & Sarah, Homestead & Orchard Site
Culver vcty, Jefferson County current/other names:
assoc addresses:
block/lot/tax lot:
location descr:Crooked River National Grassland, Adjacent to the Gray Butte Trailhead along Forest Service Road 57; US Forest Service Number 0607050044 twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:13S 14E 19,20
PROPERTY CHARACTERISTICS
resource type:site height (stories): total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:4
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:c.1886 second date: date indiv listed:05/26/2015
primary orig use: Single Dwelling orig use comments:
second orig use: Agric. Field
primary style: prim style comments:
secondary style: sec style comments:
primary siding: siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type: architect:
builder:Julius and Sarah McCoin
comments/notes:
Portions of this file have been redacted to meet Oregon State law (ORS 192.501(11)). More information may be available upon request. Contact the Oregon State Archaeologist at 503-986-0674 for more details.
GROUPINGS / ASSOCIATIONS
Survey/Grouping Included In: Type of Grouping Date Listed Date Compiled
   Settlement and Abandonment of the Crooked River Grasslands, 1868-1937 MPS 05/26/2015 2015
SHPO INFORMATION FOR THIS PROPERTY
NR date listed: 05/26/2015
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date:
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
ARCHITECTURAL / PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
The Julius and Sarah McCoin Homestead and Orchard Site is a 12 acre archaeological site and historical agricultural and domestic landscape in central Oregon (Figure 1). The site is situated within the Crooked River National Grassland in Jefferson County in (Willamette Meridian) (Figure 2). The site is a Homestead Property Subtype 1 property as described in the Multiple Property Document entitled “The Settlement and Abandonment of the Crooked River Grassland in Jefferson County, OR, 1868-1937” (MPD). The contributing resources of the property consist of a house lot, two orchards, cultural vegetation, including shrubs, shade trees, windbreak trees, and a 400’ segment of Forest Road 57. Non-contributing resources include two modern, interconnected exclosure fence systems (to exclude livestock), a barrier of placed boulders, and set of livestock watering troughs. The site has remarkable integrity of its archaeological remains and agricultural landscape. It possesses intact and largely intact surface and subsurface archaeological deposits. The plan of the orchard floors is evident from the location of the orchards’ trees, fence line vegetation dating from the homestead period (Figures 4 and 5).
HISTORY
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The history of the Julius and Sarah McCoin Homestead and Orchard Site is in many ways emblematic of the homesteader experience in the Grasslands as described in the contexts developed for the Multiple Property Document entitled “The Settlement and Abandonment of the Crooked River Grassland in Jefferson County, OR, 1868-1937” (MPD). The Julius and Sarah McCoin Homestead and Orchard site is a Homestead Site Property Subtype 1: Successful Homesteads with Development as defined in the MPD. The McCoin homestead property is locally significant under Criterion A (association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history) in the areas of Exploration Settlement and agriculture for its integrity and association with the settlement of central Oregon, an important event in the central Oregon region. The property also is locally significant under Criterion D (yielded or may be likely to be likely to yield information important in prehistory or history) for its integrity and for its demonstrated contribution of important information and its potential to contribute further important information, particularly in reference to the research questions posed in the MPD for the Homestead Site Property Type. The McCoin Homestead meets the general and property type-specific registration criteria established in the MPD for the Homestead Site Property, Subtype 1: Successful Homesteads with Development. The period of significance begins with the occupation of the site in 1886 and extends until abandonment of the homestead in 1936, spanning the Settlement, Agricultural Development, and the Resettlement and Demise of Community contexts developed in the MPD.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
Title Records Census Records Property Tax Records Local Histories
Sanborn Maps Biographical Sources SHPO Files Interviews
Obituaries Newspapers State Archives Historic Photographs
City Directories Building Permits State Library
Local Library: University Library:
Historical Society:Crook County, Deschutes County, Jefferson County Other Respository:Dept of Ag, Ntl Park Service, US Forest Service
Bibliography:
Cooper, Joanie and Shaun Shepherd 2012 Provisional Apple-Variety Identifications. Notes from Jefferson County Historical Society/Home Orchard Society field trip to Grassland area homesteads, 18 August 2012. Handwritten notes. Jefferson County Historical Society, Madras. Crook County 1883 Assessment and Tax Roll, 1883. Bowman Museum, Prineville. 1904 Assessment and Tax Roll, 1904. Bowman Museum, Prineville. Deschutes County Historical Society 1985 A History of the Deschutes Country in Oregon. Midstate Printing, Redmond. Helms, Irene H. 1980 Remembering School Days of Old Crook County. Prineville Print Shop, Prineville. Jefferson County 1914 Assessment and Tax Roll, 1914. Jefferson County Public Works, Madras. 1918 Assessment and Tax Roll, 1918. Jefferson County Public Works, Madras. Jefferson County Historical Society 1984 History of Jefferson County Oregon 1914-1983. 2012 2012 Homestead Orchard Tour in Jefferson County. Jefferson County Historical Society, Madras. Jordan, Lucille 1980 Central Oregon Rancher. Lamonta Pioneer Bids Farewell to Homestead Childhood Landmarks. April 1980:12, 14. McFarland, Janine 2013 Excavation and Evaluation of the Sarah and Julius McCoin Homestead. Research notes, report in preparation. Ochoco National Forest, Prineville. Morotto, Michael 1995 Archeological Investigations PGT-PG&E Pipeline Expansion Project: Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California. Volume IV, Synthesis of Findings. Subcontract No. 20822-SC-41. INFOTECH Research Inc., Fresno. Newell, Edythe W. 1984 The Crooked River Grassland. Manuscript. Ochoco National Forest. Portland Tribune 2012 Pioneer-era Orchards Still Bearing Fruit. Portland Tribune 21 August. Electronic document, http://pamplinmedia.com/msp/129-news/149674-pioneer-era-orchards-still-bearing-fruit, accessed 7 January 2013. U.S. Department of Agriculture 1935a Appraisal Report, Tract 124, 29 March 1935. Ochoco National Forest, Prineville. 1935b Appraisal Report, Tract 142B, 2 April 1935. Ochoco National Forest, Prineville. 1935c Appraisal Report, Tract 142D, 2 April 1935. Ochoco National Forest, Prineville. 1935d Appraisal Report, Tract 705, 13 June 1935. Ochoco National Forest, Prineville. U.S. Department of the Interior 1895 Homestead Patent for Julius McCoin, 9 September 1895. BLM Serial Number ORTDAA 062819, Document 2435. Electronic document accessed 5 May 2013. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov. Witty, Jim 2001 Gray Butte Will Take Your Breath Away. The Bend Bulletin. 21 March 2001. Bend.