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This Curry County TTTP Project is adoptable. If interested, you may contact the state administrator with your plan on how to build this site. |
Welcome To Curry County Oregon TTTP Genealogy and History
| We are a genealogy group dedicated to providing free genealogy to researchers in all 50 states. We will also have special projects that will include a variety of information to also aid in your research. Our sites will be full of a variety of information so feel free to come and check them out! Curry County was founded on December 18, 1855, from the southern part of Coos County. New name proposed Tichnor after Captain William Tichenor, council member from Port Orford. Voters wanted to honor the territorial governor, George Law Curry instead. Curry County sets on the Pacific Coast next to California. Neighbors are the Pacific Ocean, north by Coos County, and east byJosephine County. Curry County contains 1648 square miles. Ellensburg was renamed Gold Beach in 1891 because of the gold and other minerals found in the sands of the beach. Initially, settlement in the county was concentrated along the coast and depended primarily on water transport. While there is still some mining of cobalt, nickel, and chromium in the southern part of the county, most of the county's economy is agriculture, recreation, tourism and forest products. The county has excellent grazing areas for raising cattle and sheep as well as favorable environmental conditions for the production of blueberries, cranberries, and horticultural nursery stock. No history of Curry County is complete without a brief history of the Natives of this area. Hundreds of battles and thousands of deaths were the result of Indian Wars in Southern Oregon. |
