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| Vertical File Subjects | Talent Pioneer Saw First Mail Sack Delivered. | On March 17, 1881, Mary Carey watched the stage coach drop off a sack of mail at a shanty that AP Talent had build for it. The town was… |
Vertical File Subjects, Talent, OR, Description |
| Vertical File Subjects | Overflowing with Gratitude | Eighteen young people were part of a Source to Sea expedition paddling from the headwaters of the Wood River to the Pacific Ocean. It was a… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Klamath River |
| Vertical File Subjects | Circumstance Led to career making billions of Images (Fred Baker) | Fred Baker was fishing on Diamond Lake and snapping a few photos, not realizing his pictures would be athe beginning of a new career. … |
Vertical Files, Subject, Photographers |
| Vertical File Subjects | This is not a blueprint for a Disneyland (Tourism) | Talent and Phoenix are uniting to attract visitors to their communities. Cecilia Bagnoli, destination and tourism strategic planner for the… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Tourist Trade |
| Vertical File Subjects | Gadfly Ghosts, by Marjorie O'Harra | Dale and Ruth Flowers moved out of their home at 520 West Jackson because the only explanation of Missing or constantly misplaced items could be a… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Paranormal Incidents. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Peter Britt, The Chinese and Oregon Gold | Despite hostility and discrimination, Chinese miners carved a niche for themselves in the numismatic history of Oregon. Peter Britt was the… |
Vertical File, Biographies, Britt and Vertical File Subjects, Chinese in Jacksonville. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Southern Oregon, Sunset, by JB Kirkland. | A description of Southern Oregon with an emphasis on climate and land possibilities |
Vertical Files, Subject, Southern Oregon Land Conservatory |
| Vertical File Subjects | Federal Wireless Station at Central Point, Ore. | This article from a 1912 Popular Electricity Magazine describes building the local telegraph station in Central Point, how the power station… |
Vertical Files, Subject, history, Federal Wireless Telegraph |
| Vertical File Subjects | Boy Scouts of America | Two letters from 1938 regarding an honor banquet. |
Vertical Files, Subject, Boy Scouts |
| Vertical File Subjects | Hillah and Ben Ali Make Whoope together. | This article from a 1929 Crescent magazine describes a gathering of 1300 Shriners in Medford. There was a parade with a Shriner band with it… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Fraternal Order/Social Organizations |
| Vertical File Subjects | The "Big Four," by Florence Lee RN | This article from a 1920 publication about public health describes how early nurses ministered during a flu outbreak that year. She… |
Vertical Files, Subject, nurses and nursing, and in Medical Care, Public Health |
| Vertical File Subjects | Carnegie Picture in City's Library Centennial Mark | In 1935 Medford celebrated the centennial of Andrew Carnegie's incredible contribution to towns across America by putting his photo in Libraries… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Jackson County Library #1 |
| Vertical File Subjects | Park Bear Family proves Friendly to Auto Visitors | The 1935 Mail Tribune reports a family of bears fearlessly playing around cars at Crater Lake. The luckiest ones watch the cubs play around… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Bears |
| Vertical File Subjects | Kill 1000 Crows by dynamite at Gold Ray Roost | Ten to twelve thousand crows hanging around a rookery on an island in the Rogue River. These pests destroy duck and other eggs and affect… |
Vertical Files, Subject, Birds |
| Vertical File Subjects | CP Cheese Plant prepares to Open | These 1934 issues of the Mail Tribune explain the beginning of Rogue Valley Cheese production. The plant had 2 1100 vats, purchased at least… |
Vertical File Subjects, Central Point, OR, Businesses, Rogue Valley Creamery. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Caves City Fire Wipes Out Main Business Block | Caves City , a fast growing town near the junction of the Redwood and Oregon Caves highway, was destroyed in a blaze. Burned were the… |
Vertical File Subjects, Cave Junction |
| Vertical File Subjects | Combine Shrubs at Court House Experts Advice | Two articles in a 1934 Mail Tribune discuss the proper landscape for the Jacksonville court house grounds. |
Vertical File, Subjects, Jacksonville, OR, Historic Houses, Court house |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Bryden House | The Bryden House as it now stands was built in 1910in the Oak Lawn subdivision which had been designated that "no building less than $2500 be… |
Vertical File Subjects, Medford Oregon, Historic Houses, South Oakdale District |
| Vertical File Subjects | CCC and the Oregon Caves tie memories together. | Columnist Paul Fattig writes about a photo of his dad and his CCC crew at the entrance of the Oregon Caves, and remembers other Oregon caves he… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Oregon Caves |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Chautauqua in Ashland | The Chautauqua movement started in 1874 in New York, and Ashland started theirs in 1893. Ashland erected a large beehive looking domed… |
Vertical File Subjects, Ashland, OR, Chautauqua |
| Vertical File Subjects | Three Oaks: A History | The Three Oaks Country Store was once the home of James and Margaret Savage. It is one of the oldest buildings in Southern Oregon, built in… |
Vertical File Subjects, Rogue River, Businesses. |
| Vertical File Subjects | History Comes Alive on Medford cemetery tour | Eastwood IOOF Cemetery tour guide Steven Corelis gives monthly tours and points our past mayors, lawmen, war heros, do-gooders and business… |
Vertical File Subjects, Medford, Or, Cemeteries |
| Vertical File Subjects | Preserving Sweat Equity, North Medford High Gym | Athletic Director Piet Voskes was on his way to remove and restore trophies and sports memorabilia when the gym roof caved in. The 60 year… |
Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR., North Medford Highv |
| Vertical File Subjects | Throusands join "Hands Off' Protests in Medford | Demonstrators gathered Saturday on streets near Hawthorne Park and then Vogel Plaza for more than four hours. Between 2000 and 3000 people… |
Vertical File Subjects,, Medford, Or, Politics and Government. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Grants Pass Daily Courier | GPDaileyCourier 8-3-2025, Orson Gilbert, Henry Miller, W.J. Wimer, Amos E. Voorhies, Earle E. Voorhies, John Voorhies |
Grants Pass, OR, History |
| Vertical File Subjects | Logging Bobsled | "Restoring a Piece of Logging History", 3-28-2025 from Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop Tyke Frost |
Lumber and Lumbering |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Rogue 2000 Plan | Evergreen 1988, A Community Based Alternative to the Rogue River National Forest Draft Forest Plan, Mike Burrill, Patti Bills, Bob Johnson, Bill… |
Lumber and Lumbering |
| Vertical File Subjects | One-Room Schools | MMT 10-29-1978 article, Elga Abbott, Gill Edmondson, Ernest Smith, Carlos Morris, |
Jackson County, OR, Schools, 1800-1940 |
| Vertical File Subjects | Hugo Max Mayer | MMT 1-14-1935 article, Curry county hermit convicted of killing rancher Robert Franz and committed to life in hospital for the insane. |
Hermits |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Making of a New Western Hero | The Forest Ranger in Popular Fiction, 1900-1940 by Jeff LaLande published in Journal of Forestry November 2000 pages 43-50 includes a copy of a… |
VF Rogue River National Forest |