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Southern Oregon's Collegiate Women's Sports and Athletics

This article is a great overview of the SOU athletic scene from 1995 to 2025.  Dennis Powers writes about directors from Monty Cartwright, to…

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The Rogue River: Its History Over Time. Glen Woodridge's work

The Rogue has been a source of drinking water, irrigation, fishing, recreation, from Native Americans to present dayl  It travels 215 miles…

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Nonnative turkeys gobble up important habitat for native species

The Applegate watershed has a number of wild turkeys that threaten native species.  There are at least 45,000 in Oregon, coming from birds…

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A Cultural Inventory of the Nugget Butte Communications Site Project

These two packets of information from the Butte Falls Field Office describes the arrow and beacon fixtures that illuminated the way for the first…

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820 years of tree

News photo from 1985 Mail Tribune.  The huge tree was 8 1/2 feet in diameter.

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The Footlights Theater

Three newspaper clips of plays:  Farewell, Farewell Eugene, photo and cast, The Third Best Sport, cast and photo, and The Monkey's Paw and…

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Ruth Hickok Schubert, Obituary

December 24, 1927 to December 14, 2020.  Ruth was born and grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, and started classes at the Chicago Institute of…

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Rita Katherine Mahoney, Obituaary

May 30, 1948--June 6, 2025.  Kathy was born in California, and moved to Ashland to study at Southern Oregon University.  Her specialty…

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Marc J. Valens, obituary

January 1939--October 14, 2025.  Marc has been a resident of Moondance Ranch in Beaty, Oregon, and has made his home in Southern Oregon since…

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Rogue River National Forest Roads

Historical Contest and Overview: The Development of Roads in the Cascade Area of the Rogue River National Forest, 1840s-1990s, submitted as part…

917.9527 L28 Library
Jackson County, Oregon, Resource Atlas

Natural, Human, Economic, Public, January 1974 by the Extension Community Development Project, Oregon State University

917.9527 O74 1973 Library
Jackson County: History, Places, People

by Marjorie O'Harra for the Jackson County Medical Society, 1979

917.9527 O33 1979 Library
Medford Oregon Rogue River Valley

Published by Medford Commercial Club Medford Oregon 1909

PAM 917.9527 M43 1909 c.4 Library
Medford Oregon Rogue River Valley

Published by Medford Commercial Club Medford Oregon 1910

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A Study of the Economic Impact of the Pacific Northwest Museum of Natural History and Allied Activities on Jackson County and the State of Oregon

Prepared for The Pacific Northwest Raptor Rehabilitation Corporation by Southern Oregon Regional Services Institute, Southern Oregon State College…

917.9527 S68 Library
Climbing Mt. Pitt

Climbing Mt. Pitt by Ernest W. Smith, 1950

917.9527 S65 11950 Library
Development Analysis Rogue River Valley, Oregon

Economic and Development Analysis Rogue River Valley, Oregon, by Larry Smith & Company, 1964, Residential, Commercial, Industrial and…

917.9527 S55 1964 Library
The Sketch

The Sketch, Portland, Oregon, Published every Saturday by the Sketch Publishing Col, Incorporated.  1907. Dr. J.M. Keene, J.A. Perry, W.I…

917.9527 S54 1907 Library
History of Medford by Jane Snedicor; with other writings on local history by various authors

Ashland in Retrospect by Prof. I.E. Vining, 1931, Jacksonville, Fort Lane by Alice Applegate Sargent, Old Jacksonville Church by Mrs. Frank Tou…

979.527 S54 1950 c.2 Library
Master Manual of Fact Sheets

Master Manual of 23 S.O.H.S. History Fact Sheets  Union Creek, Mill Creek Falls, Barr Creek Falls, Cole Rivers Hatchery, Ralph Bunyan Statue…

917,952 S7 Library
Notes on Historical Events -- Applegate Ranger District

Notes on Historical Events -- Applegate Ranger District (as related by Ranger Lee Port), 1945 

917.9527 P67 1945 Library
Jackson County Resource Inventory

This Jackson County Resource Inventory was complied by the 451st Civil Affairs Group, United States Army Reserve, of Portland, Oregon, during 1975…

917.9527 U55 1975 c.1 Library
"Your Invitation to Oregon: White City Industrial Park"

White City Industrial Park, White City, Oregon, by David H. Irving, and General Manager 1967

917.9528 W45 1967 Library
Medford Has Found Itself

1923 Survey by the Chamber of Commerce, R. W. Ruhl, W. H. Crawford, John H. Carkin

917.9528 M43 1923 Library
Medford Orcharding District

Photocopy from the University of Oregon Archives, Eugene, by Elizabeth Wagner, 1913.  Old Medford, Medford in Transition, New Medford.

917.9527 W34 1913 Library
Ashland High School Humanities Building

By George Kramer. Ashland School District No. 5, State Level Documentation.  May 14, 2025. Architectural study, illustrated with photographs…

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Where the Trails Are

Ashland - Medford and Beyond, Updated for Hikers, Bikers, Equestrians, by Bill Williams.  How to find nearly 150 recreation trails located in…

917.9527 W4 Library
Jackson County Resource Inventory

This Resource Inventory Handbook was compiled by the 451st Civil Affairs, United States Army Reserve, of Portland, Oregon, during 1975 active duty…

917.9527 U55 1975 c. 2 Library
The Sams Valley Meteoritic Shower

by Erwin F. Lange published in "the Ore Bin"  Vol 29. No. 8 August 1967 The Meteorite in Sams Valley was found by George P. Lindley, and…

PAM 523.51 L35 1967 Library
The Port Orford, Oregon Meteorite Mystery

by Roy S. Clarke, Jr. Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences Number 31 includes : John Evans and the Port Orford Meteorite Hoax; A…

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