![]() ![]() At the time, Colestin was populated enough then that it was considered a town, and had its own post office. ![]() ![]() Geologic Map of Colestin, Oregon Due to the unique geologic formations, combined with volcanic activity created "mineral springs" in the area, Byron Cole saw an opportunity to build and establish the "Colestin Mineral Springs and Resort Hotel", in the early 1880's. ![]() By mid-decade, the first stages coaches and mail carriers were crossing the Siskiyou Summit, and businesses appeared that facilitated travel over the summit: two brothers, Rufus and Byron Cole had established what would later be called "Cole’s Station" near a spring on Cottonwood Creek, just south of the California border to serve the first stage stop heading north and Barron’s Stage Station, “also known as the Mountain House,” was established in the Upper Bear Creek valley near the south end of today’s Emigrant Lake (Ashland Tidings, JanuWilson 1999). This same trail was used later by the cattle drovers, and later by the thousands of miners and gold seekers with their packmules and finally by the first emigrant wagon trains of the late 1840s and early 1850s. Prior to 1860, the Oregon-California Trail over the Siskiyou Summit on the Oregon-California border was a path used by Indians and fur trappers traveling on foot or on horse back. This area was located on what later would become a main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Location The "Colestin Mineral Springs" was located just north of the California-Oregon, near Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon. ![]()
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