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Within a year of tossing around the idea, Bandon had its first golf course.The Chamber of Commerce initiated the idea at a meeting on June 9, 1927, and a…
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On Dec. 20, 1924, the Wedderburn, Ore., Social Art Club presented the comedy titled “My Friend from India” at the community hall.Most of the audience came…
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The land around Drewsey, Ore., was once a popular camping spot for the Paiute Indians. They fished for salmon in the North Fork of the Malheur River,…
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The town of Drewsey, Ore., wasn’t always Drewsey. When Abner Robbins opened a store there in the summer of 1883, he called the place Gouge Eye. That…
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Although Jim Holland founded Holland, Ore., around 1877, the person who really built the town was Jack Smock, who arrived 18 years later.Smock had lost a…
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Keno, Ore., wasn’t always Keno. And it wasn’t named after the popular card game, well, not directly, anyway.The authoritative book titled Oregon…
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Sportsmen formed a rod and gun club in 1912 in Riddle, Ore., that invited the whole community the following Labor Day to a venison barbeque.The club built…
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Thanks to nature, a late-night fire didn't totally destroy the town of Merlin in 1915. It came close.The fire started around midnight when someone decided…
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U.S. Marine Corps Major-Gen. A.A. Vandergrift couldn’t bear watching some 4,000 of his World War II troops deteriorating daily from tropical diseases in…
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The county jail in Jacksonville, Ore., had nine prisoners before the night of the October 1909 escape. The sheriff was away and the deputy thought he had…
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Irish settlers came to Lake County, Ore., in the second half of the 1800’s, many fleeing the great potato famine that over 50 years drained Ireland of…
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Volunteers have been busy since 2013 sprucing up the 156-year-old pioneer Lane Cemetery in the Southern Oregon community of Winchester, once Douglas…
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The curses of lumbermen, ranchers, and Crater Lake tourists inconvenienced by limited railroad track space in Kirk, Ore., may still linger at the…
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Archaeologists have recently discovered preliminary evidence of human existence more than 15,800 years ago in Southeast Oregon’s Harney County.Also…