Josephine-Jackson County OR Archives News.....Grass Flat was a real town in 1850's 1890
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Old Unknown Newspaper Article 1890
Grass Flat was a real town in 1850's
About three miles up the althouse from browntown and on the west side of the 
creek is the old townsite of Grass Flat. The town recieved its name from the 
grassey bench of almost entirely level land on which it stood. Opposite the 
south end of the famous Frenchtown bar, which lies on the east side of 
Althouse. The general course of Althouse creek is from the south to the north. 
The bar lies parallel with the course of the creek. On Grass Flat in the middle 
and later 50's there were saloons, hotels, a buthche shop and corral. Cattle 
were driven in from different parts of the outside country and butchered and 
the beef  sold to miners. In after years when the town had been abandoned and 
the majority of the buildings and ceased to exist the writer (Wm Mackey)  and 
his sister being little children played around the corral where old steer heads 
and cattle bones and horns were scattered in profusion.
On the first day of January 1859 it began to snow and continued to snow for 72 
days. The cabins at the head of Althouse where the snow was the deepest were 
buried and the snow was tunneled to get around from cabin to cabin. When it 
then froze the miners walked on the crust.

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