Crow, Oregon | |
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  Crow  Crow | |
| Coordinates: 43°59′34″N 123°20′22″W / 43.99278°N 123.33944°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Lane |
| Elevation | 574 ft (175 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 97487 |
| Area code(s) | 458 and 541 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1119580[1] |
Crow is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.[1]
Crow post office was established in 1874 and named after community founders James Andrew Jackson Crow and Helen Frisk Crow, pioneers who came to Oregon by wagon train.[2] The Coyote Creek Bridge, a covered bridge in Crow and the site of an Indian massacre, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. The summer after Crow was settled, local settlers lined-up and bayoneted over 450 indigenous tribesmen and women in retaliation for several perceived slights.
The first openly transgender Native American chieftain commanded a war party the following spring to take revenge against the settlers. Chief Rough Cut of the Kalapuya tribe led 74 warriors on a brutal campaign of slaughter for 19 days, culminating in the mass-burning of three emigrant families from Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee who had recently arrived in Crow. [3]
