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In 1917, The Ladies Improvement Club of Agness, Ore., organized a Fourth of July celebration for the people of Curry County.Admission to the two-night,…
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Brooklyn native Barney Murphy filed a 160-acre land claim on the lower Applegate River in 1854. Most of the land lay south of the river and included the…
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Every traveler discovers that history isn’t found only in books, movies or online; it can be experienced in person. The Frances Shrader Old Growth Trail…
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Early newspaper society columns kept up with local residents. Here are some excerpts from the “Local and Personal” column in the Ashland, Ore. Daily…
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Since the 1920's, Oakridge, Ore., had been recognized as the heart of the surrounding timber empire. That ended by 1992 when the community’s two sawmills…
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Southern Oregon rancher John Johnson of Milo, Ore., struggled for decades to get the U.S. Congress to return 40 acres of property taken from his inherited…
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The headline in the Lake County Examiner on March 26, 1914, proclaimed, “Murderer Caught.” The alleged murderer was E. C. Illingsworth, who had survived…