Description: The iconic figure of Ulysses S. Grant has several ties to St. Louis and Missouri. He married Julia Boggs Dent on August 22, 1848. Julia lived at White Haven, her father's plantation, just west of St. Louis. Grant had met Julia while he was stationed at the Jefferson Barracks.
12am: The Rogue River, OR forecast for Feb 17 is 49 degrees and Patchy rain possible. There is 74 percentage chance of rain and 4 mph winds from the Southwest. 3pm: The Rogue River, OR forecast for Feb 17 is 51 degrees and Overcast.
The Rogue's headwaters start at Crater Lake and twist and roar for 215 miles through the Cascade, Siskiyou and Coastal Ranges before spilling into the Pacific at Gold Beach. Numerous small towns dot its journey west, most notably the city of Rogue River, which took its name from the river itself.The River of the Rogues,. Two developments triggered the flood of white settlement: the Donation Land Act, which gave 640 acres to each settling couple, and the discovery of gold along the banks of the Rogue late in 1851. Thousands of miners flooded the area in search of this precious metal.