Crescent City was an isolated community in 1854, with dense forest all around and its rocky ocean entrance often fogged in.

The railroad contributed greatly to the growth of Montague, Calif., where cattle were driven to loading zones for rail shipment to Sacramento and San Francisco.

The life of Oscar “Shorty” Minnick serves as an example of what makes a person important to a community.

Growing up in Grants Pass, Ore., Jerry Allen loved sports, but only weighed 125 pounds in high school. After school, he worked at a record store and radio station KAGI, gaining first-hand broadcast experience doing the weather report. Within a few weeks he became the youngest DJ in Southern Oregon.

In 1907, a Young People’s Christian Temperance Union meeting in Grants Pass featured speaker Dennis Stovall, who said he had solved the problem of the first sin in the Garden of Eden.

Before the proposed State of Jefferson ignited the passions of disenchanted residents of Southern Oregon and Northern California in 1941, a similar scheme for carving out a new state gained brief attention in the winter of 1910.

In 1873, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs Alfred Meacham was nearly killed and scalped during peace talks seeking to end the war with the Modoc Indians near Alturas, Calif.

From the 1800s to the present day, Britt Hill in Jacksonville has created memories for residents as well as visitors to the historic town.

The establishment of the Crater National Forest on July 1, 1908, influenced national forest policy for years to come.

Klamath County has long had an interest in winter sports, as demonstrated most recently by the opening in 2002 of the Bill Collier Community Ice Arena with a covered 200-by-85-foot refrigerated rink.