Editing Port Orford, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Port Orford Beach, Battle Rock in foreground, Umatilla Forest, 1920. - NARA - 299194.tif|thumb|left|Circa 1920&ndash;30]]
Before the arrival of European settlers, the Port Orford area was inhabited by the indigenous [[Tututni people]]s. The Tututni languages were a part of the [[Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages|Pacific Coast Athabaskan]] language family.<ref name="rules">{{cite web | url=http://www.native-languages.org/tututni.htm| title=Tututni Language and the Coquille Indian Tribe|publisher=Native Languages of the Americas|access-date=2009-03-06}}</ref>
[[File:Battle Rock, Oregon.png|thumb|Battle Rock<ref>[[wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 26/Oregon Geographic Names|Oregon Geographic Names, in Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1925]]</ref> as depicted in the 19th century]]
[[File:BattleRockCityPark.jpg|thumb|Battle Rock]]

Spanish explorer Bartoleme Ferrelo mapped Cape Blanco in 1543. It remained the farthest north point on the coastal map until 1778, when British explorer Captain Cook found land farther west.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4Kkjd_xwS0C&q=cape+blanco+spanish&pg=PT41|title=On the Edge: Mapping North America's Coasts|last=Dunlap|first=Thomas R.|date=2012-07-18|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199974382|language=en}}</ref> Captain George Vancouver sighted land and named it Port Orford in 1792.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_WQDWc_vuQC&q=port+orford+tichenor&pg=PT9|title=Port Orford and North Curry County|last=Nelson|first=Shirley|date=2010-08-09|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781439640272|language=en}}</ref> In June 1851, Captain William Tichenor, in command of the U.S.S. ''Seagull'', pulled into Port Orford, leaving behind nine men.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-gNAAAAIAAJ&q=port+orford+tichenor&pg=PA193|title=... History of Oregon ...|last=Bancroft|first=Hubert Howe|date=1888|publisher=History Company|language=en}}</ref> Fort Orford, a U.S. Army fort, was established 14 Sep 1851 near the town and lasted until 22 Aug 1856.

In October 1941, then-mayor Gilbert Gable, frustrated with the poor condition of the state roads around Port Orford, which hampered both travel and economic development, suggested that a number of counties along the Oregon and [[California]] state border should secede and create the [[Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)|State of Jefferson]]. This movement came to an end with U.S. involvement in [[World War II]].<ref name="gable">{{cite web| url=http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/jefferson03.asp| title=Jefferson County: The State that Almost Seceded| publisher=AAA| access-date=2009-03-06| archive-date=March 2, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302161758/http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/jefferson03.asp| url-status=dead}}</ref>