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NHP Grants Pass Oregon By blade2k5
Map Details and Information
Grants Pass is a city in, and the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on Interstate 5, northwest of Medford. Attractions include the Rogue River, famous for its rafting, and the nearby Oregon Caves National Monument located 30 miles (48 km) south of the city. The population was 23,003 at the 2000 census, with an estimated population of 34,237 in 2007.
Early Hudson's Bay Company hunters and trappers, following the Siskiyou Trail, passed through the site beginning in the 1820s. In the late 1840s, settlers (mostly American) following the Applegate Trail began traveling through the area on their way to the Willamette Valley. The name was selected to honor General U.S. Grant's success at Vicksburg and a post office was established on March 22, 1865. The city of Grants Pass was incorporated in 1887, a year after it had become the county seat.
In 1922, a group of local businessmen incorporated the Grants Pass Cavemen. Taking their name from the nearby Oregon Caves National Monument, this group was one of many groups of boosterism common in the United States at the time. For decades afterwards, this group would represent their city in countless public gatherings, dressed in furs and bearing clubs, performing such uncivilized acts as capturing female crowd members and politicians and putting them in their cages. To honor this group, in 1971 a fiberglass statue of a caveman was erected at the corner of Morgan Lane and Sixth Street. Grants Pass High School's mascot is also the caveman. The original monument was damaged by arson in 2004 and repaired in 2005.
Grants Pass is also the birth place of Dutch Bros Coffee which began at the "coffee house" on the corner of "D" and "6th" streets in downtown Grants Pass. Owners and brothers, Travis and Dane Boersma started this franchise in 1992 which quickly spread throughout the region due its growing popularity. Dutch Bros is now a popular coffee franchise spread throughout the western United States.
Map Specifics
Map Type: Real World
Region map size: Map is configured for 20 large city tiles and is 4x5 in size.
config.bmp size: included with zip file
Dependencies: Either SC4 Mapper or SC4 Terraformer for importing.
Maps were created by taking 1/3 Arc USGS DEM elevation data.
Install/Uninstall Instructions: Can be found in the readme provided.
Credits
blade2k5 - Original map creation, scaling, importing. SC4TF modification.
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