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An Early Gazetteer- Royal Bensall
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Anonymous on
October 15, 2011 at
2:33PM PST
Lieutenant Royal Bensall of Company D came to Oregon and was posted on the Coast at Fort Yamhill and at the Alsi Indian Subagency, where he famously wrote in his diary about the Trail of Tears of the Coast Indians when they were brought up to the Subagency from the Coos, north. In Yachats onto Cape Perpetua we have a Memorial to this called the Amanda Trail, named after Amanda, a south coast Indian woman taken from her non-indian husband and their little girl and though blind, was on the long walk to the ALSI sub agency now known as the Yachats prison camp.
Bensall's excerpts from this trip are posted on the Amanda Trail where with support from the Three Rivers Confederated Tribes, we just put in a new bridge by the memorial statue.
Royal Bensall left the Army and moved up to Newport later with his bride where they lived in the nice home built for the Bay lighthouse keeper as the new Yaquina Head lighthouse quickly superseded the old Bay lighthouse, and i have read that he wrote Dispatches from the Coast for the CORVALLIS GAZETTE under the Pen Name "RIALTO".
I hope to see more of his historic writings and understand the Historical Society may have his diary, & believ his wife was named Mary? and may have just been recently the subject of an Historical Society biography...
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