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Grants Pass

Oregon, United States
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Grants Pass, city, seat (1886) of Josephine county, southwestern Oregon, U.S., on the Rogue River, in the Klamath Mountains, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Medford. A stage stop on the Sacramento-Portland overland route, it was named to commemorate Union General Ulysses S. Grantā€™s victory at Vicksburg and developed after the Oregon and California (later Southern Pacific) Railroad established a station there in 1883. A trading point for mining, forest, and agricultural products, Grants Pass...

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