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Spring house before restoration 1996 Left Film Cabinet shelf E Direct entry
How to Have Fun in the Medford Rogue Wonderland

prepared by Jackson County Chamber of Commerce 1935. Two copies

PAM 917.9527 J32 1935 Library
Let's Get Acquainted With The Medford Area

Points of interest for the visitor information for new employees compiled by Medford Chamber of Commerce Summer 1968

PAM 917.9527 MED 1968 Library
Wili Yowo A Journey into Takelma Mythology

An Essay by Thomas Doty with two medicine formulas Translated by John Woolliscroft

970.3 Doty 1987 Library
Pilot is Crushed, May Live

A southbound air mail plane, piloted by Pat Patterson, crashed into the face of a butte near the Mt. Ashland mine and fell 200 feet. …

Vertical File, Subjects. Aviation, crashes and Aviation Airmail. Vertical File Subjects
Pioneer Mine in Applegate to be worked

April 21, 1927 MMT:  A Historic Million Dollar camp, idle for three-fourths of a century, above the Sterling placer diggings will be mined by…

Mines and Mineral Resources Vertical File Subjects
Find Clue In Killing of Tommy, Scant Hope of Finding Slayer of Tom Nakano

From MMT, November 1927:  Sheriff Jennings questioned several suspects for Tom Nakano's death at 5 am on South Front Street.  Mr. Nakano…

Vertical File, Subjects, Japanese in Southern Oregon Vertical File Subjects
Dedication of Presbyterian Organ Success

Three pages of articles from September 1927 documenting the new Reuter Pipe Organ from Laurence, Kansas.  The organ cost $12,000 and was said…

Vertical File, Subjects, Medford, ORm Churches, Presbyterian Vertical File Subjects
Statue of boy, dogs given city in 1935

The Mail Tribune featured a story and picture of a marble statue with a boy loving two cocker spaniels.  There is a history of the fountain…

Vertical File, Subjects, Medford, OR, Parks, Alba Vertical File Subjects
New Book covers Jacksonville trails

Larry Smith, a founding member of the Jacksonville Woodlands Assn, prepared the book, titled Jacksonville's Emerald Necklace: From Goldmines…

Vertical File, Subjects, Woodlands Association Vertical File Subjects
Rogue River Railroad Bridge, C & OS

A photo and architectural description of the Rogue River Railroad bridge which was built near Grants Pass in 1911,  The flood of 1955…

Vertical File, Subjects, Railroads, General Vertical File Subjects
Recollections of Applegate Valley and Medford, 1910-1915

by Waddingham, Gladys Wolf  typed manuscript, 1981

979.527 W33 1981 Library
City of Jacksonville Draft Land Development Ordinance

1981

352 J32 1981 Library
City Officials of Incorporated Cities, Jackson County, 1979

Jackson County Library System, 1979

352 J32 1979 Library
Jacksonville: Its Early Court System

Robert Wilson, 1971

347.974 W54 1971 Library
A History of the Oregon Sheriffs 1841-1991

Linda McCarthy, 1992

347.56 M11 1992 Library
Duties Of Sheriffs, Coroners, and Constables 2nd ed.

John G. Crocker, 1871, book in poor condition. Front cover detached from the book, water damage on front and first several pages are almost torn…

347.96 C93 1871 Library
Disputing the Dead: U.S. Law on Aboriginal Remains and Grave Goods

H. Marcus Price III, 1991

347.3 P94 1991 Library
General Ordinances of The City of Medford Oregon

John H. Carkin and Harry C. Skyrman, 1930

345.3 M48 1930 Library
Beauty and the Beast: On Museums, Art, The Law and the Market

Stephen E. Weil, 1983

347 W43 1983 Library
The Nealons of Table Rock

by Leavitt, Katherine N. H. 1973  Hole punched and put in a three ring notebook. Chronicles the Table Rock, Sams Valley area of Jackson…

979.527 L42 1973 Library
Building and paving of the Pacific Highway in Jackson County, Oregon

A Thesis submitted for the degree of Civil Engineer, University of Washington 1915 by Frank Alvar Kittredge

625.71 K84 1915 Library
Umpqua Trapper

Winter 2021 magazine  Vol. LVII No. 4  includes the following articles: 

1913 House boat carrying 7 persons to Essay Trip…

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Petey Young

Obituary:  2/15/1950 to 10/31/2022.

Petey lived life on her own terms.  She had six children, joined a theater troupe, was a…

Vertical File Biographies, Young Vertical File Biographies
Kurt Austermann

MMT November 20222, Obituary,  Kurt grew up in the East, but after he and his wife Valerie graduated from Boston University, they moved West…

Vertical File Biographies, AU--AZ Vertical File Biographies
Russell "Bill" Branham

Obituary:  January 12, 1923 to  November 21, 2022.

Bill grew up in California, and served in the Air Force during WWII, later…

Vertical File Biographies, BR Vertical File Biographies
Staurt Freedman

Obituary:  November 18, 1938 to November 27, 2022

Although his degrees were in engineering and business, for the last 50 years his…

Vertical File Biographies, FR Vertical File Biographies
Shirley Mae Kelley Hackett

Shirley was born in Missouri, moved to California during the depression, She volunteered as a Civil Air Patrol observer during WWII.  On…

Vertical File Biographies, HA 1 of 2 Vertical File Biographies
Mark Anthony Smith

Obituary:  April 18, 1950 to January 23, 2022

Mark spent much of his young life in Hilt, but moved to Medford in 1973.  Mark…

Vertical File Biographies, Smith. 2 of 2 Vertical File Biographies
Wild Turkeys in Jackson County

Mail Tribune, October 5, 1927

James Dinkens of Beagle claims that the wild turkey experiment is doing well.  He estimates that there…

Vertical File Subjects, Birds Vertical File Subjects