Mega Index

MEDFORD/Order of Red Men organized/ Date: Apr. 8, 1904

ASHLAND/Alpha Chapter, Order of Eastern Star founded, first chapter in Oregon/ Date: Mar. 13, 1880

JACKSONVILLE/A.F. & A.M. Masons, first fraternal order installed in Jacksonville/ Date: Mar. 15, 1855

PHOENIX/1st Republican party meeting in Oregon held in Lindley School House/ Date: May 1856

ASHLAND/Good Templars organized/ Date: Nov. 9, 1883

MEDFORD/Medford Elks organized/ Date: 1909

ASHLAND/Ashland Lithia Park voted in with maintenance levy not to exceed 4.5 mills, second park in Southern Oregon./ Date: Dec. 17, 1908

ASHLAND/John McLaren hired to landscape the Chautauqua Grove and adjacent area, the beginning of development of Lithia Park/ Date: 1914

ASHLAND/Work on Lithia Park completed/ Date: 1915

ASHLAND/Lithia Park dedicated/ Date: 6030

ROGUE RIVER/Palmerton Arboretum dedicated to public use,/ Date: May, 23, 1970. This was Orrin Palmerton Nursery from 1920s to 1950s.

ASHLAND/Lithia Park Bandshell constructed/ Date: 1949

CRATER LAKE/Crater Lake National Park formed/ Date: 1902, 1903.

ROGUE VALLEY/Samuel Colver rebuilt wagon road between Ashland and Klamath Falls/ Date: 1869

FIRST WEDDING in Medford (Lewis Doren and Ida Caldwell)/ Date: July 31, 1884

OREGON approved as a Territory/ Date: Aug. 14, 1848

COLE RIVERS FISH HATCHERY turned over to State of Oregon by Corps of Engineers/ Date: 1973

LILY GLEN RANCH homesteaded by Margaret Lindsay & sons/ Date: 1898

TUNNEL 13 DeAutremont Robbery / Date: Oct. 11, 1923

ROGUE VALLEY/First wagon road built in the Valley followed HBC pack trail route through the Valley)/ Date: 1859

OREGON/First Territorial Governor took office, Joseph Lane (appointed by President Polk)/ Date: Mar. 3, 1849

DONATION LAND ACT/ Date: 1850

DWELLING, first house erected in valley by Joel Perkins at river ferry,/ Date: 1850

JACKSONVILLE MUSEUM opened/ Date: July, 10th, 1950

DWELLINGS, two cabins in Rogue River valley at river fords, Halstead & Vannoy/ Date: 1851

CAPT. JAMES STUART killed in action, (Stuart Creek named for him, now Bear Creek.)/ Date: June. 18, 1851

JACKSONVILLE/Gold discovered on Jackson Creek/ Date: Dec. 1851

ROGUE VALLEY/First Donation Land Claim by Alonzo A. Skinner/ Date: Autumn, 1851

ROGUE INDIAN WARS/ Date: 1851-56

FIRST WHITE MEN in Rogue Valley, (Peter Skene Ogden's Brigade.)/ Date: Feb. 1827