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2 unusual facts about Fort Rock


Fort Rock

They resemble impact craters formed by meteorites, but lack the heavy metal signature residues of space objects.

Luther Cressman

His most significant discovery came in 1938, when he discovered a pair of perfectly preserved shredded sagebrush bark sandals at Fort Rock in Oregon that were radiocarbon dated from 10,500 to 9,300 years old, making them the oldest footwear ever discovered.



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Ray Hatton

In 1984, the Oregon Historical Society published a review of Pioneer Homesteaders of the Fort Rock Valley in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, the society’s premier history journal.