Hugo Neighborhood Association & Historical Society
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APPLEGATE TRAIL: BOYCE PROPERTY Applegate Trail: Boyce Property The Hugo Emigrant Trails Committee (Trails Committee) was formed to bring together all those who want to learn more about the early transportation in the area, from the casual admirer to the dedicated researcher.1&2 Kristin Boyce’s property is the location of the pioneer Widow Niday’s place as depicted on the 1856 General Surveyor of Oregon map (321 acre Niday Donation Land Claim No. 40). This place later became the Sexton Place after Caroline (Stumbo) Niday married David Sexton in 1857. The location of the Sexton house and Jacksonville Road (Applegate Trail) matches the field notes of the General Land Office (GLO)1856 map as well as the map itself (see map on title page). 3&4 
c N60 W & SE Enter openings"5 [GPS-A-4-2] "Widow Niday’s house. S47 E 4 Lks dist"5 "The NW corner of Widow Niday’s Land claim bears N 21 E. 408 Links"6 "1.2 [chains] Jacksonville Road c S 60 E"7 [GPS-A-4-1] Wagon Trail Inventory - OR-JA-00-34-06-35- Boyce Property It further matches the accounts of living oral history participants Doran and Verlin Grimes when, as children, they lived in the old Sexton house from 1932 - 1934.8&9 "The old Three Pines hotel had a well that was later investigated by oil miners because they had been told that it was a whistling well. A whistling well has gas escaping from the water in the well. In 1932 the oil miners drilled over on the Ludwick property, but never did find anything there. They did not drill on the hotel well site. The oil miners rented the Grimes house in Three Pines during the two years they were drilling until early 1934. During this time the Grimes moved into the old white-painted Sexton house on what is now Oxyoke Road."
The location of the old Sexton home can further be identified by a cold house in the 1932 photograph which existed in 2005. The present owner, Kristin Boyce, gathered up most of the bricks of the Sexton house to use in walk ways of her present home also on the property. More Information The location of Jacksonville Road/Applegate Trail is positively located as being adjacent to the old Sexton home location in the 1898 and 1932 photographs (GPS-A-41 and GPS-A-4-2). In conclusion, more work needs to be done by the Trails Committee using the OCTA mapping standards (e.g., artifact search, review GLO field notes, field review by OCTA representatives, etc.). 2 An interim trail classification of Class 3 or Class 4 was recommended for OR-JA-00-34-06-35-Boyce Property. Want more information? Contact an officer of the Hugo Neighborhood, or a member of the Trails Committee on how you can become involved in this trail project.
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