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 | | The earliest homesteaders came to the Alsea Valley on the central coast in the mid- to late 1850s. |
 | | Along the Alsea, the later arrivals ran hogs, sheep, goats, and cattle in the hillsides, cursing the young trees and shrubs that kept springing up on their arduously cleared pastures. |
 | | Settlers were constantly cutting or burning saplings and sprouts, in addition to the labor of building houses, barns, and fences, tending livestock, and feeding and clothing families. |
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