Item 6: PH - Ordinance Renaming 3rd/4th Connector

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running behind the SMJ House from 3rd and Pearl St. to the top of Skinner Butte was named "Shelton Boulevard. After that 1 went to the Lane County Surveyor's office to see if they had additional infonnation. They gave me a copy of a map of about 1910 by Mr. Klovdahl that names the same Butte road "Shelton Blvd.". Later I found that when Dr. Shelton sold a parcel of land (at the butte summit) to the U of 0 in 1988 to build an observatory, he agreed to construct an all-weather road to the site. That road was completed about 1892 and we are assuming he named it Shelton Blvd., so there was a road by that name for at least 70 years. Sometime after 1962, the name was changed to Skinner Butte Loop (no one seems to know when that occurred). It seems most appropriate to honor this individual by using the same road name that existed for over 70 years in the same area in naming our new "Historic District" street. Doctor Thomas \Vinthtop Shelton deserves this honor for the following reasonS: He was an early pioneer to the Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail in 1846 Mr. Shelton graduated from medical school and married Adah Lucas in 1870. The family was the founder of Monmouth College in Monmouth, Oregon. In 1873, he established himself as a physician and a pharmacist in Eugene. In 1883 and 1884, he purchased most of Skinner's DLC north of the O&C Railroad. He subdivided the land west of the Butte, between Washington & Lincoln, in 1886. In 1886, he & Charles Lauer established Eugene's fttst water Co. & built a reservoir. IIl1887, he built on the Butte's south face an elaborate Queen Ann Victorian hoUSe. Fall 1887, the house was almost ftnished, when one day at midnight it burned down He decided to try again, work resumed in Apr. ~88, in Oct. Shelton family moved in. In Sept. 1888, Dr. Shelton sold a parcel of land at the Butte summit to the VoID. As a part of sale, he agreed to build an all-weather road to the VotU Observatory sift In 1892, the road from 3rd & Pearl to the summit was completed, and later named.