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Sumpter, Oregon
Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors — approximate location, not a photo of the site
Bourne was a gold-mining camp originally called Cracker City, renamed for Oregon senator Jonathan Bourne Jr., whose nearby mines produced about $8 million between 1894 and 1916. A dozen or so houses and a few ruins line the main road in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, and some cabins are still lived in.
Reached by unpaved Cracker Creek Road; stay on public roads and forest land.
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