Randolph, Oregon One Place Study

Location: Randolph, Coos, Oregon, United States
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Oregon

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Contents 1 Randolph, Oregon One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.3 History 1.4 Population 1.5 Tasks 2 Sources

Randolph, Oregon One Place Study

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This One-Place Study will examine the social history of Randolph, Coos County, Oregon, from its founding in the late-19th Century up through the mid-20th Century. The goal is to describe the families that established the Randolph community and to connect them to the larger tree.

Name

Three possibilities have been cited as to the 1853 naming of the mining camp-town that arose at the mouth of Whiskey Run Creek on the Oregon Pacific Coast: (1) It was named for the famed Virginian, Randolph of Roanoke; (2) It was named after Randolph, Massachusetts; or (3) It was named in honor Randolph Tichenor, a prominent citizen of the southern Oregon Coast, present at the mining camp in 1853. For a discussion of the above possibilities, please see https://ancestryincontext.org/a-puzzling-name/.

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: United States

State/Province: Oregon

County: Coos

GPS Coordinates: 43.167778, -124.356389

Elevation: 2.0 m or 6.6 feet

History

Population

Tasks

• Provide historical overview
• Define the geographic scope
• Post cemetery data
• Add a map
• Add images
• Create profiles for early residents
• Connect profiles to worldwide tree

Sources

Bright, Verne (December 1957). "Randolph: Ghost Gold Town of the Oregon Beaches". Oregon Historical Quarterly. Oregon Historical Society. 58 (4): 293–306. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20612359 (pp. 293 and 297).

McArthur, Lewis A. “Oregon Geographic Names: Third Supplement.” Oregon Historical Quarterly. Oregon Historical Society. 44 (2): 176-218. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20611490 (p. 211).

Oregon Historical Records Survey Service Division. “Inventory of the County Archives of Oregon. No. 6. Coos County (Coquille).” Works Projects Administration, U.S. Government, May 1942 (p. A-23).

Walling, A. G. History of Southern Oregon: Comprising Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Curry and Coos Countries, Comp. from the Most Authentic Sources ... Portland, Or: A. G. Walling, 1884 (p. 492).