Mbhs #: 0717
Year Range: 1870s
Location: Ben Johnson Mountain
Source: Lane County History Museum
Notes: The 4398-foot high peak to the west of Uniontown is named for Benjamin Johnson, a "mulatto" and (probable) slave who travelled the Oregon Trail in 1853. He worked in Uniontown as a blacksmith in the late 1860s. For more information on the nomenclature of this geographic feature, see https://www.ohs.org/blog/renaming-ben-johnson-mountain.cfm To read more about Ben Johnson, see https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/johnson-ben.
