Whisky Creek Cabin

Whiskey Creek Cabin is a rustic cabin in southwestern Oregon in the United States. It is located at Whiskey Creek, a northern tributary of the Rogue River in the section where the river National Wild and Scenic River is reported. The building is the oldest existing hut in the mining time in the valley of the river. The Bureau of Land Management bought the cottage and the surrounding grounds in 1973. The Whisky Creek Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

History

The cabin was built around 1880 by an unknown miners. The original building was very simple and consisted of four walls, a floor made of rammed earth and a wooden roof. A moat was built around 1890 in the area to serve the gold wash on Whiskey Creek. This trench begins about 1500 meters further upstream and led behind the tool shed, 1905, the trench was extended to about 15 feet in front of the mouth of the creek. This trench provided the hut with drinking water.

The first registered mining rights at the Whisky Creek in 1917 registered by a PH Rushmore. Rushmore sold his rights a year later at Cy Whiteneck, who spent the next thirty years here. He improved the hut by adding a wooden floor and a second room. Whiteneck also built several sheds nearby. Over the years Whiteneck washed Although gold from the creek, but was not rich.

Whiteneck sold his property in 1948 LM Nichols and his wife. Nichols also later Lou Martin as administrator of the owner. This continued during the sixteen years in which he lived, with the search for gold in the creek continued. He also improved the hut. He built the heated by solar power shower and large walk-in pantry next to the hut. He also constructed an aerial ropeway to transport firewood across the creek. For this purpose he put an approximately 145 meter long half-inch steel cable across the river and stretched it with a system of hand-operated winches and levers. Martin remained in the post of administrator to the estate in 1973 was sold to the Bureau of Land Management. The Bureau of Land Management presented at 1973 Information panels and allowed to visit the hut. Due to the significance of the site as the oldest existing hut respect of mining on the Rogue River Canyon which Whiskey Creek Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1975. Except the cottage is located on the 20 acre ( 80 Ar) of grounds, yet another a contributing structure.

Building

Because of its isolated location, the cottage has changed little since 1973, when the last residents moved out. It is a one-story log cabin with two rooms and adjoining pantry. Each one takes the front porch and back over the entire length of the building. They are worn by logs. The floor of the hut is made of pine wood planks, and the roof is covered with galvanized corrugated iron. The pantry has double walls with sawdust insulation between the inner and outer walls.

Locally there are two scales, a large tool shed is directly behind the hut, another shed for a power generator located a short distance north. There is a heated by solar radiation shower, which was constructed by the last inhabitants of the cottage and is located between the tool shed and the cottage itself.

Location

The Whisky Creek Cabin is located in the Rogue River Canyon in southern Oregon and is about 195 m above sea level. It is located at a lonely spot on the river and is surrounded by the Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest.

The hut can only be reached by a ride on the river or a walk on the path in the valley. The starting point is Grave Creek, about six miles west of the historic border ranger station. From there it is about five kilometers to the hut at the Whiskey Creek, the above its confluence with the Rogue River is approximately 400 meters. The site at which there is the hut is a popular resting point for hikers and people that the river can be drifting down, so there is at the mouth of Whiskey Creek a simple campsite.