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The search for the historic Applegate Trail

NEAR WOLF CREEK, Ore. - A nearly $50-million project to add hill-climbing lanes for trucks on Interstate 5 north of Grants Pass has archeologists looking for traces of the historic Applegate Trail.

Volunteers and professionals are scouring the hills and canyons between Grants Pass and Wolf Creek mapping the 160-year old route. More than a 150 years of road building has all but wiped out much of the pioneer route....
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