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We would like to provide the residents of  Grants Pass  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Grants Pass Home page. The Grants Pass Home page provides as much information as possible on Grants Pass. Knowing Grants Pass’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Grants Pass’s Home page, you will also find Grants Pass’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Grants Pass has a population of 37938. 48.4% of Grants Pass’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.6 are female. 47.3% of Grants Pass is married and 52.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $258,339, and the average rent is $945. Household median income in Grants Pass is $46,580, and the individual median income is $24,048. Grants Pass’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.2%), Hispanic(10.3%), Multiple(6%), Other(1.2%), Asian(0.9%), Black(0.8%), Native(0.8%).


Early Hudson's Bay Company hunters and trappers, following the Siskiyou Trail, passed through the site beginning in the 1820s. In the late 1840s, settlers (mostly American) following the Applegate Trail began traveling through the area on their way to the Willamette Valley. The city states that the name was selected to honor General Ulysses S.


Grant's success at Vicksburg. The Grants Pass post office was established on March 22, 1865. The city of Grants Pass was incorporated in 1887.The Oregon–Utah Sugar Company, financed by Charles W. Nibley, was created, leading to a sugar beet factory being built in Grants Pass in 1916. Before the factory opened, Oregon-Utah Sugar was merged into the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.


Due to labor shortages and low acreage planted in sugar beets, the processing machinery was moved to Toppenish, Washington, in 1918 or 1919.Grants Pass, along with Medford and Ashland was an unofficial "sundown town", which actively warned Black and other non-white people to leave town before sunset or face violence and harassment.


Although there was no documented law of the racist policy, it was enforced locally via residents and signage.


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