If only it could speak, we would love to hear the story this mid-nineteenth-century Hampshire County relic could tell.
This piece was found near the Oregon Trail near Baker City, Oregon, in the 1950s. We don't know if the complete rifle or the stock was found. It is possible that the owner of this rifle was a pioneer from Hampshire County. However, Hampshire County Rifles were prevalent in the early to mid-1800s, so the original owner could have purchased it somewhere other than our county.
We will let our imagination interpret this piece's journey. We know it completed a circle, leaving here in the 1800s and returning here to the county where it was created.
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