INNSKIP STATION
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NAME: Innskip Station COUNTY: Malheur ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Winter snow, summer heat BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring through Fall |
COMMENTS:
3 miles north of US Highway 95 between Jordon Valley and Burns Junction. Marked on highway by Louis and Clark Historic Marker Adjacent to a currently operating ranch. REMAINS: Stone foundations and partial walls of station building. Graveyard. |
| Innskip Station was founded by Dr. E Innskip in 1863 as a way station on the Skinner Toll Road in South East Oregon. Innskip Station's primary claim to fame today is as the final resting place of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. Born in 1805, Jean Baptiste was the son of Sacajawea and Toussaint Carbonneau, guides on the Louis and Clark Expedition. Jean Baptiste was the youngest member of the Expedition. Jean Baptiste went on to live a colorful life which included a sojourn in Europe where he became fluent in several languages. His 61st year found him in the goldfields of California. Hearing of a gold strike in Montana, Jean Baptiste started out but got only as far as Innskip Station in South East Oregon, where he contracted pneumonia and died in 1866. He is buried in a cemetery across the road from the station with other Oregon pioneers. (Another Jean Baptiste Charbonneau gravesite in Wyoming is thought to be mis-identified). Submitted by: Garwood and Louise Jorgenson |
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