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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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Pedestrians approaching the Jacksonville, Ore., City Hall will soon be taking a walk through history.The city’s Boosters Club is replacing sidewalk panels…
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In December 1917, members of the isolated hamlet Agness, Ore., gathered for a potluck lunch and social time at their community hall.The principal feature…
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In 1880, inclement weather took a toll on the expected attendance at Miss Anna Geisel’s Christmas Eve Ball, held in her newly opened dance hall in…
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In September 2018, anonymous investors bought the isolated Southern Oregon mountain community of Tiller, reportedly to create a river resort along the…
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It was late January 1881 when a woman who had imbibed “too much tangle-foot” became the first occupant of the jail in the new city hall in Jacksonville,…
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In 1917, families from all over the Southern Oregon Coast gathered in Harbor, at the Antler Hotel, for an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration.The…
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By 1905, when the book titled “An Illustrated History of Central Oregon” was written, the town of Merganser was dead, lingering only in the memories of…
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Charles Crump had no forewarning of what would come of his contacting the Nevada Thermal Power Co. that was looking for geothermal sources for power…
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In 1928, the automobile editor of the Portland Oregonian heard that the postmaster at remote Agness, Ore., had never been in a car. In those days, no…
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One evening in the late 1800’s an unannounced visitor came to a small house built by Albert and Sarah Howlett on Little Butte Creek in Eagle Point, Ore.…
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A couple of cigarette butts helped solve a 1917 murder at the Spaulding Mill in Selma, Ore. No one knew why a popular young employee at the mill, Bill…
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Oregon Route 140 heads into the Oregon High Desert east of Klamath Falls, passing by some colorfully named communities, including Dairy and nearby Bonanza…