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- French Settlement is the original name of Melrose, Oregon and its neighbouring valleys located in Douglas County including Flournoy, Garden and Coles valleys. It is located along the west side of the South Umpqua River South of its fork, a few miles West of Roseburg in Southern Oregon, West of Interstate 5. It roughly occupies a stretch of 8 miles by 4 miles of lush fertile well irrigated soil. The first American newcomers gave the location such a generic name based on the ethnicity or language spoken by the original settlers, namely French Canadians. French Settlement is also known as an early mixed ancestry settlement, or at least an attempt, in the Pacific Northwest history, sometimes referred as a French Canadian or a Métis settlement. Although relationships have been generally harmonious, intermarrying between the original French speaking core settlers and other European ethnic newcomer groups did not occur until the late 1970s. This rare reference narrative on French Settlement limits the early settlers to only those who never married into local Indian tribes (nor to half-breeds natives from earlier occupation during the fur trade period). Earlier land occupants leftover from the fur trade era were deemed squatters to eradicate and certainly not identified. In addition, scholar Jean Barman identified through the Catholic church records a whole slew of sons and daughters of French Prairie earliest pioneers intermarrying and heading to French Settlement vicinity having temporarily acted as a magnet. This although quickly came to an end when hunted down by vigilantes during the 1855 Indian Wars period if not forcefully resettled into Grand Ronde reservation or escaping further into the Pacific Northwest back-country such as around Frenchtown, Washington. The Oregon earliest pioneer families at stake were the Rivet, Bellique, Bercier, Despard, Desportes McKay, Dompierre, Gagnon, Gervais, Gingras, Grégoire, Groslouis, Perrault, Picard and Pichette. Only one native group was able to make it through and the Cow Creek band regained recognition in 1982 on the basis of seven mixed ancestry families hiding for several decades around French Settlement. Many ethnic communities had therefore been competing early on for the most valuable land of Southern Oregon in and around French Settlement. (en)
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- French Settlement is the original name of Melrose, Oregon and its neighbouring valleys located in Douglas County including Flournoy, Garden and Coles valleys. It is located along the west side of the South Umpqua River South of its fork, a few miles West of Roseburg in Southern Oregon, West of Interstate 5. It roughly occupies a stretch of 8 miles by 4 miles of lush fertile well irrigated soil. The first American newcomers gave the location such a generic name based on the ethnicity or language spoken by the original settlers, namely French Canadians. (en)
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