The many legacies of Letitia Carson
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Image sources: Archival documents, map and black-and-white landscape photo of homestead site, contemporary homestead site and tree photographs by Barbara Forrest-Ball and Letitia Carson gravestone photograph by Bob Zybach, all courtesy of the Letitia Carson Legacy Project. Background painting courtesy James L. Lavadour; Martha Lavadour portrait courtesy of Joseph A. Lavadour Jr.; landscape with cows image by Ivan McClellan. Image credit: Aaron Marin / High Country News. Article by Jaclyn Moyer. High Country News – June 1, 2023.
Eight miles north of Corvallis, Oregon, a wedge of open prairie known as Soap Creek Valley tucks up against the eastern foot of the Coast Range. A sweep of grassland rimmed in forested hills, the valley is both vast and sheltered at once. Here, in 1845, Letitia Carson concluded a more than 2,000-mile journey from Missouri. Though she’d survived the expedition’s many dangers — including the birth of a daughter along the way — her arrival in the fabled Willamette Valley would have offered little comfort: Letitia was a Black woman entering a region that had, among its first acts of governance, barred Black people from residing within its borders or claiming land. […]
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