The first emigrant train over the "Southern Route," with more than fifty wagons under the leadership of Captain Levi Scott and David Goff, left the Oregon Trail at Fall Creek or Raft River on the Snake River on August 10, 1846. The Klamath River was crossed eight miles upstream from here on October 4, 1846. This trail, roughly 680 miles, took fifty-six days of travel. Captain Scott, leading the second emigrant train, found a new Klamath River crossing one-half mile north of here on October 11, 1847. This remained the chief ford of the area until Brown's Ferry was established here in 1866.