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Jacksonville Inn Re-opens

RVT 3-28-2023, Todd Meyerhofer, Decant, Miriam Barchi, Randy Howard, Jerry Evans

Restaurants, Bars, Etc. Vertical File Subjects
Rogue Retreat Crossings

RVT 4-1-2023, Medford Urban Campground re-named, Sam Engel

Homeless Vertical File Subjects
Yak and Bison Ranches

RVT 4-1-2023, Firebird Farms, Wild Oasis Bison Ranch, Sophia Weiss, Elori Moore

Ranch Life Vertical File Subjects
Wisnovsky, Ann Marie

RVT 2023, Obituary

WI Vertical File Biographies
Jackson County Title Company

Oregonian, 4-15-1986, 100 Year Club, Ken Pond. John A. Harvey, T. W. Miles

Medford Businesses H- L Vertical File Subjects
Mrs. William Lee Holloway

Oregonian 12-2-1917, Jackson Women Have No Difficulty in Taking up Men's Work When War Calls

HO Vertical File Biographies
Mrs. J. E. Bodge

Oregonian, 12-2-1917, Jackson Women have no Difficulty in Taking up Men's Work when War Calls

BO Vertical File Biographies
Louise Shawkat

Ashland.news 4-11-2023, Obituary

SH Vertical File Biographies
Helena Louise Lentfer Sohl

Ashland.news 3-29-2023, Obituary

SO Vertical File Biographies
Gin Lin Trail

SOSH Fact Sheet 15

Mines - Gin Lin Vertical File Subjects
Gin Lin Mining Trail

US Forest Service pamphlet with map and trail marker explanations

Mines - Gin Lin Vertical File Subjects
The Big Ditch

A History of the old big ditch to Yreka now known as Edson-Foulke Yreka Ditch Company by Lewis M Foulke- james Farraher- Edson Foulke, Jr. 1960…

PAM 622 F1960 Library
Western Express Research Journal of Early Western Mails

Vol. 73 No 1 Whole No. 287 March 2023 ; Includes articles on Route Maps of Express Companies serving the Gibsonville Ridge, Plumas and Sierra…

M71 C Mezzanine List
Tallant, Tallent, Talent Family History 1991

by David Barnes. Traces the descendants of Aaron Tallant b 1730/40  - Aaron Patton Talent of Talent, Oregon p. 48-49 

PAM 929.4 B261 1991 Library
Van Meter, Hurst, Charley : A Genealogy

by Geraldine L. Rdmond Deter 1969

PAM929.2 V35 1969 Library
The Umpqua Trapper

Spring 2023  Vol. LIX No. 1 published by Douglas County Historical Society includes articles on Dr. Eugene R. Fiske,  Memories of my…

G2 F
Back in Time Growing Up In the Applegate

by Evelyn Byrne Williams with Janeen Sathre 

921 Williams Library
A.A.E Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph

by Elizabeth Anne McCauley  224 pages with sources, index and many photographs

778.9 McCauley 1985 Library
First Presbyterian Church Directory 1977

85 S. Holly St. Medford, Oregon Membership lists with phone numbers and names of Elders. 

PAM 285.109 M43 1977 Library
Frontier Times

Magazine November 1978 including an article "Don't Call her Madam!" about Jeanne DeRoboam Holt from Jacksonville, Oregon pages 6-9, & 26.

PAM 979.5285 F76 1978 Library
Broom Brigade Tactics and Fan Drill for Boys and Girls

David C Cook Publishing Co. 1890. 5th Edition - Looks like a reprint.  (3copies)

PAM 369.4 B37 1978 Library
Know Your School

by Jackson County League of Women Voters Cira 1941. Pamphlet that helps teach kids to ask questions and get answers about the school they attend.…

PAM 371.209 J32 1941 Library
Hidden Sources

Family History in Unlikely Places by Laura Szucs Pfeiffer. Genealogical book of more than 100 sources: Adoption Records, Coroner's Inquest, Orphan…

929.1 Pf 2000 Library
Eli Matthews: Jackson Chamber CEO

Eli Matthews, the President and CEO of The Chamber of Medford and Jackson County, is a fourth generation Southern Oregonian who has been with the…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR, Businesses, general Vertical File Subjects
Mercy Flights: Medical Transport Experts

The Medford-based nonprofit organization Mercy Flights has flown more than 20,000patients inits seven decades, and responds to more than 27,000…

Jackson County, OR, Emergency Medical Services Vertical File Subjects
1950's Time Capsule reveals old tresures.

The Southern Oregon Education Service District owned a county farm home near Talent often referred to as the Poor Farm.  A time capsule was…

Vertical File Subjects, Jackson County Co, Farm Home Vertical File Subjects
Ruth Ballweg, Obituary

February 29, 1944 to November 20, 2022

Ruth Ballweg was an educator and advocate for Physician Assistants.  As a student, she was a…

Vertical File Biographies, BA, 1 of 2 Vertical File Biographies
Oregon Caves Chateau preparing for next stage renovation

Jeremy Curtis has never seen the Chateau operational because it had closed to the public for major repairs when he became superintendent in 2018.…

Vertical File Subjects, Oregon Caves Vertical File Subjects
Sparking a Revitalization?

RVTD will renovate the interior of the old Greyhound building and turn it into a Mobility Center where the public can learn how to use RVTD's bus…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR, Downtown Medford Assn. Vertical File Subjects
Illegal set for world premiere

Local entrepreneur Laz Ayala's immigration from the killing fields of El Salvador is narrated in the film Illegal shown in the AIFF film festival…

Vertical File Biographies, Au--Az Vertical File Biographies