Jacksonville Music Hub of Coast in Early Days

From the 1931 Mail Tribune:  Jacksonville and Southern Oregon rate high as being music hubs in the early days because of the number of spinet pianos found.  Two of the earliest were owned by Mrs. F A Carley and Alice Hanley.  Miss Hanley's piano was in the first Methodist Church of Jacksonville, then moved to a home where it was used as a meat chopping block.  Alice purchased it and hired Gene Howard of Oakland, CA to reconstruct it.  The piano's history was reported as being one of two pianos that came around the horn.  The other was lost overboard.  It was built in 1738 in Massachusetts.  There were 5 other pianos in Medford.