In February 1935, the first Civilian Conservation Corps ‘rolleo’ in the United States came to Gold Beach, Ore. A rolleo is a log-rolling contest, where two competitors stand on a spinning log floating in a pond and try to dislodge each other.

Dave Evans bought a herd of big steers in 1862 at Port Orford. He got them at a bargain price, but faced a difficult challenge of herding them along the Oregon Coast.

In 1853, early European settlers built several stockades for protection from American Indians, the original inhabitants of the land. One was on the Emerson Gore Donation Land Claim near present-day Phoenix Ore. At any sign of danger, farmers and miners rushed to the fort.

Life was never easy for African Americans in early Oregon, and George Fletcher’s life had its ups and downs.

In February 1921, Mr. and Mrs. John Coy of Bandon, Ore., ran afoul of national Prohibition by possessing intoxicating liquor.

Thousands of cattle perished in the Klamath Basin during what was long remembered as the “hard winter of 1889-90.” The parched region was still recovering from a damaging summer drought and Klamath Falls had just gone through a major fire that destroyed most of the town’s business district on Sept. 6, 1889.

When the Southern Pacific Railroad train rolled into Klamath Falls in early 1909, it was heralded as the first train to reach the city. But a small, unnamed logging railroad was the first one in Klamath County.

The Oregon Geographic Names Board will meet in 2020 to consider the naming or renaming of geographic features, including eight in Southern Oregon.

The development of radio and television in Southern Oregon was largely due to the efforts of William Smullin, who in the 1930s launched successful radio stations in Eureka and Grants Pass.

Scientists have yet to name a rare mushroom discovered in the spring of 2018 in the Southern Oregon Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.