1848
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Lane County
- General Joseph Lane, of Indiana, became Governor of Oregon Territory. Lane County was named after him.
Coburg
- Arrival of other pioneer families: Isaac Van Duyn, Mitchell Wilkins, Enoch Coleman, Zachary Pollard, Thomas Vaughn, and George H. Armitage.
Springfield
- According to donation land claim records, the first settler to stake a claim in the Springfield locale was William M. Stevens, who filed on a 640-acre tract in 1848 (Genealogical Forum of Portland 1962).
