Place:Fort Flournoy, Douglas, Oregon, United States

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Fort Flournoy is an inhabited place.

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From History of Southern Oregon, published by A.G. Walling, 1884.

Fort Flournoy is a wooden defensive work, built by the settlers in 1855 to protect the people of the vicinity against the savages, but never used as such. It still stands as a memorial of those troubled times, and may be seen now by the antiquary or the curiosity-seeker. It is built of hewed logs in the form of the block houses erected by our fore-fathers to guard against their vindictive neighbors, the Indians. Its size at the base is some sixteen or eighteen feet square, but after rising seven or eight feet the second store is considerably larger -- twenty-six or twenty-eight feet square -- projecting beyond the outside of the under portion. Loopholes provide opportunity for shooting downward upon opponents who may be engaged in forcing an entrance to the lower story.