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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHow Oregon Road Got Its Name - Battery Storage© Copyright 2022, by Raphael Badagliacca from “North Fork” a collection celebrating the North Fork raphael@thewritingfactory.net Oregon Road (from North Fork, a collection celebrating where we live) Said to be one of the most beautiful roads on this long island how did it get its name so near the easternmost end of these loosely united states? See those thickets from which deer emerge at the two twilight times of the day – dusk and what the French call crepuscule du jour? Those thickets were once run of the land overgrown with vines infested with rattlesnakes now remnants of another time like colorful rocks on the beach with volcanic tales to tell. In 1832, the unorganized Oregon Territory spanned what would become the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, parts of Montana and Wyoming west of the continental divide, and north to British Columbia, its trails worn into the land by the movements of fur traders passable only by foot or on horseback. Later came the wagons full of migrants weathering vicissitudes of enormous proportions, pestilence, wild animals death in unimaginable ways – traveling companion in pursuit of the American adventure. © Copyright 2022, by Raphael Badagliacca from “North Fork” a collection celebrating the North Fork raphael@thewritingfactory.net So, in 1835, when Orin Wiggins confided to reverend Huntting of the Presbyterian church that he and his wife had built the only home in what was called by others the “northeastern wilds of Mattituck” not far from where I am walking now, the pastor responded with words that stuck. “You live in Oregon.”