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 The home is on an acre of land that was once part of the Felix Scott, Jr land grant from the U.S. government. The 4 acres filbert orchard adjoining the home is part of a similar grant to his father, Captain Felix Scott, Sr. (1786-1858). Captain Scott, a Virginia lawyer and later a state senator and justice of the peace, was one of the first white settlers in Lane County, Oregon - arriving in 1846. He had two wives during his life and 22 or 24 children. Captain Scott's homestead claim began on the south bank of the McKenzie River, opposite the mouth of the Mohawk River. The Mohawk River is a short distance down stream from Hayden Bridge. The land grant was 320 acres, and extended south to the present Marcola Road. in Springfield, Oregon. Land grants were given by the U.S. government after the settler had lived upon, and utilized, the land for a period of years. |
 
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 Felix Scott Jr's (1829-1878) homestead abutted his
father's on the west. It too was 320 acres and also extended south from
the McKenzie River to Marcola Road. The present Yolanda grade school
and Briggs Middle School, and grounds, are part of Scott Jr's homestead.At age 72 years, Captain Scott was killed by members of the Modoc tribe in 1858 at Goose Lake in Klamath County in Southern Oregon. Scott was returning from Kentucky to his home with a band of prize cattle. He stopped at Fort Laramie, Wyoming on June 17, 1858 and then continued west to his fate. Oregon became a state of the Union in the following year. Scott Jr. was in the cattle and freight business. He constructed
a toll road over the Cascade Mountains east of McKenzie Bridge, with 50 to 60 men hacking their way
up steep slopes and through lava beds on the other side of the Cascade Summit. Now
part of Oregon Highway 126, the Scott wagon road was a short cut to the trade routes east.
Scott Pass, Scott Trail, Scott Lake and Scott Creek are familiar markers along the now
McKenzie Pass Highway No. 126. Scott Jr. moved to California in 1869, then to Arizona in 1872. |
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The county property tax assessment records indicate that the present home on the 1 acre parcel was built in 1890. The former owners of the home property, and the year of acquisition (by year of deed or document recording in the county records) are:
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 The home has 5 bedrooms and
2 bathrooms on the 2nd floor. A kitchen, pantry, bathroom, dining room,
parlor and living room are on the 1st floor. There is a half basement
with an electric furnace. There is also a 3rd floor attic that runs the
length of the house, and is accessed by a pull down stairway. The home
has a wood shingle roof. The porch extends across the entire length of
the front of the home, and also wraps around the east half of the home
to the side door. The rear kitchen door exits onto a very large, irregular
shaped wood deck with built-in seating, at the east rear of the home.
A small fountain and pond is astride the deck. |
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 A smaller, 13'
by 12' wood deck is on the west side of the home, and can be accessed
by a door in the parlor (family room). A larger fountain and pond (with
frogs and fish) is on the west side of the home. |
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 A 3-car garage and an 8' by
8' brick plant shed are behind the home. A "horseshoe" asphalt driveway
surrounds the house. Irrigation water is from a well. The home is bordered
on 3 sides by huge black walnut and maple trees that, on the hottest of
days, provide a cooler atmosphere than the surrounding neighborhood. The
home and garage were repainted by hand in the summer of 1998. Apples,
plums, cherries, blackberries and raspberries are grown on the home property.
Filberts (hazelnuts) are grown on the adjoining 4 acre orchard, consisting
of 286 trees. The nuts are harvested in the Fall of each year. The home
is visited nearly every summer by a large flock of Swifts that spend several
nights in an unused chimney. They fly into the chimney near sundown each
evening. |
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The 4 acre filbert orchard has this history of ownership:
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