History
There were several thousand native peoples living along the banks of the river long before the arrival of the first settlers (trappers and traders looking for animal pelts) who named it The River of the Rogues.
A flood of white settlers began to arrive in after the Donation Land Act came into force, allocating 640 acres of land to each couple who settled,and the 1851 discovery of gold on the banks of the river. At the peak of the goldrush some $70 million was extracted from the Rogue.
Geography and exhaustion of valuable animal pelts lead to agriculture becaming the major source of income in the Valley.
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