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Lavine, Tom

rv-times, 5-30-2026 obituary, Dedicated pro bono photographer of the South Medford High School Panthers and retired Medfor police lieutenant and…

LA Vertical File Biographies
Foris Vineyard and Winery

DailyCourier, 6-5-2026, History of Holland, OR, Ted Gerber, Grayce and Joe Hudrun, Jim Rich, Jack Sauer, 

Wine and Winemaking Vertical File Subjects
Stearns, Samuel Eastman

By Christina Hoyt, Susan Terry Whitaker, Baptist minister, 1853 settled a donation land claim that is now in the city limits of Medford, OR.,…

Stearns Vertical File Biographies
Diane Newell Meyer

DailyCourier, 5-24-2026, obituary, Bill Meyer, Sierra Club, Environmentalist and wilderness advocate

Diane Newell Meyer Vertical File Biographies
Kitty Kautz

Fort Steilacoom, WA, Winter 1997, The Indian Family of August V. Kautz, Kitty, the daughter of the Quiemuth of the Nisqually tribe, was the common…

KA Vertical File Biographies
Medford Mail Tribune Archives

rv-times, DailyCourier, 7-7-2026, Southern Oregon Histoircal Scoiety has acquired and is preserving the archives of the closed Medford Mail…

Medford, OR, Newspapers Vertical File Subjects
Dennis Lee Barr

rv-times 7-1-2026 obituary, Judith Ann McGraw, Fred Spiegelberg, Acme Bluegrass Companym Barr Dental Supply, Patterson Dental Company

BA Vertical File Biographies
Beekman Bank cash drawer

7/17/2026 Ben Truwe, White's Improved Money Drawer (May 2, 1873 ad attached) like the one in the Beekman Bank in Jacksonville.

Jacksinville, OR, Historic Houses, Beekman Bank Vertical File Subjects
Thomas Petch House

MMT 8/5/1982 Historical plaque has been approved for the Thomas Petch house at 3654 S. Pacific Highway.  Built in 1922 by Thomas and Leila…

PE Vertical File Biographies
Silas and Marie Vance Timeline

Prepared by Mariam Hansen and Gail Unzelman timeline for Silas Albert and Marie Hyatt Vance  includes reference to mining claim in Josephine…

Vertical File, Biography -VA Vertical File Biographies
Narrative Picture Report Submitted by Camp Supt. at Camp Prescott State Park, Medford, Oregon

Photographic p`rogress report submitted by R. M. Kent (Project Superintendent) to the U. S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, April 1…

979.527 USA 1936 Library
The History of Jackson County Oregon, second copy

William Pierce Tucker, 1931, a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Washington, geology, Native peoples,…

ORE CAB R 979.527 TUC Library
Nomination Forms, Union Creek Historic District

National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Forms, prepared by Elizabeth Gail Throop, 1979, descriptions of structures and sites…

979.527 U55 1979 Library
On Trial for Murder

On Trial for Murder

by Larry Derry     December 1961

term paper prsented to Dr. Frank Haines in partial fulfillment of the…

979.527 D48 1961 Library
Lost Towns of Jackson County

unpublished manuscript by Imogene Vincent ca. 1976-1989, descriptions of ghost towns, Asbestos, Thomas Mill, Spikenard, Etna, Moonville, Beagle,…

979.527 V4 Library
A Reevaluation of Cultural Resources Within the Proposed Elk Creek Lake Project Area Jackson County, Oregon

1981 report prepared for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District, Contract No. DACW57-79-C-0084 by the Department of Anthropology,…

979.527 U55 1981 Library
A History of Dead Indian Soda Springs

A History of Dead Indian Soda Springs

by Edward Demmer    December, 1960

a term paper presented to Dr. Francis Haines,…

979.527 D44 1960 Library
Jackson County Looking Back: A Photographic History from the 1800s--two copiess to 1939

written by Ben Truwe, 2011, photo selection by Dawna Curler, transportation, community, public service, education, agriculture, industry,…

979.527 T7 Library
The Grange in Evans Valley

The Grange in Evans Valley

by Dorothy Deckard, Spring Term 1961, History of the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Haines

Oliver Hudson Kelley, a…

979.527 D42 1961 Library
Ashland--An Oregon Oasis / Shakespeare Town

Ashland--An Oregon Oasis - An Oregon Documentary - Shakespeare Town

by Janelle Davidson

Bert Webber, photographer and editor, Webb…

979.527 D38 Library
Jackson County Looking Back Volume II: The 1940s, '50s, and '60s

written by Ben Truwe, 2012, photo selection by Dawna Curler, WWII, Camp White, Medford High School, Bill Bowerman, Dell's Hamburgers, Oregon…

979.527 T7 v. 2 Library
Carnegie Building Work Group

Carnegie Building Work Group

City of Medford, Oregon

2007  Gary Wheeler, Mayor; Vicki Bryden, Mary Jane Dellenback, Al Densmore-…

979.527 C289 2007 Library
Four Mile Lake Road

Four Mile Lake Road

Term Paper; Hst. 478; June 9, 1960

submitted by Marilyn Cobo

to determine history of an old wagon road…

979.527 C63 1960 Library
The History of Jackson County Oregon

William Pierce Tucker, 1931, a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Washington, "This thesis known to contain some…

979.527 T82 1931 Library
Of and About Six Generations in the Fall Creek-Jenny Creek Area

Of and About Six Generations in the Fall Creek-Jenny Creek Area

by Loren D. Close      Dated, 1969

LDC's grandfather…

979.527 C56 1969 Library
SOHS Historic House Markers

Wilkenson-Swem Building 1895 #41, Eagle Mill Warehouse ca. 1854 #42, United Methodist Church 1875 #43, J. T. Currie Boarding House 1908 #44, Aaron…

979.527 S69 Box 2 Library
Tunnel 13 c.1, c.2, c.3

Tunnel 13  [c.1, c.2, c.3]  by Art Chipman

[The story of the De Autremont Brothers and the West's last great train hold-up]

979.527 C45 1977 c.1, c.2, c.3 Library
All For Nothing: The True Story of the Last Great American Train Robbery

Larry Sturholm and John Howard, 1976, October 11, 1923, Southern Pacific Railroad, Ashland, Siskiyou, crime, Tunnel 13, Ray Charles DeAutremont,…

979.527 S88 1976 Library
Mercy Flights

[Images of America] Mercy Flights

Ruth Ballweg, Michael E. Burrill Sr., Michael E. Burrill Jr., and Pirkko Terao

January 23, 2019…

979.527 B193 2017 Library
Coming Home in Gold Brocade/Chinese in Early Northwest America

Coming Home in Gold Brocade/Chinese in Early Northwest America

by Bennet Bronson and Chuimei Ho, Chinese in Northwest America Research…

979.527 B76 2015 Library