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Attempting to establish a supply point along the southern Oregon coast for inland miners, Captain Wm. Tichenor, in 1851, deposited 9 men and supplies from his small steamer, Sea Gull, on a large rock near present-day Port Orford. The rock was later named Battle Rock because of the skirmish that followed between Tichenor's men and a local Quatomah band of the Tututni Nation who understandably resented the intrusion of outsiders. The sailors, under the command of Captain J.M. Kirkpatrick, repelled the attack and subsequent threats during the following 2 weeks before stealing away from the rock and finding their way to white settlements to the north. Tichenor later returned in the Sea Gull and to discover his "colonizers" were gone.
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