In addition to keeping the Bosworth Jewelry Store and Gift Shop in Fall River Mills, Calif., open for 20 years after her husband’s death, Josephine Brown Bosworth actively advocated establishing the Fort Crook Historical Society and donated land for the Fall Creek Museum. She also donated land to the First Church of Christ in Fall River.

When A. G. Rockfellow obtained patents for his self-adjusting gate in the 1870s, the people of Ashland, Ore., were not surprised. He’d been experimenting with self-closing and adjustable gates for some time. Rockfellow had emigrated with his brothers to California for the Gold Rush before settling on Wagner Creek in Oregon in 1852. He never liked farming, but he was good at fashioning tools necessary to get a job done. After his marriage in 1857, the Rockfellows moved to Ashland where he was a

In November 1924, the bow from a wrecked ship burned in the harbor at Port Orford, Ore., freeing tons of salvageable metal, including spikes and drift bolts.

One weekend in 1926, a young Talent, Ore., resident, attending school in Tacoma, Wash., told his family that he was going to walk across town to visit relatives. He said he knew a shortcut through a sparsely traveled area so it wouldn’t take long. When he didn’t show up by Sunday evening, his family called the police.

A Hudson’s Bay Company retiree, Sam Strictland, planted the first cultivated filbert tree in Oregon in 1857 in Scottsburg near the mouth of the Umpqua River. About 20 years later, French immigrant David Gernot, planted 50 imported trees in the Willamette Valley.

On a stormy day in 1934, the Southern Oregon coastal town of Gold Beach held an Armistice Day program in the community hall, followed by an outdoor flag-raising.

Nearly a dozen vineyards were located near Jacksonville, Ore., in the early 1900s when Prohibition put an end to most winemaking in the region. French immigrant Auguste Petard lost his winery and nearly went to jail.

Zany Ganung is a legendary figure of Jacksonville, Ore., best known for chopping down a Confederate flag raised near her home during the run-up to the Civil War. The incident has been passed down from generation to generation, probably embellished along the way.

Siskiyou County historian Alex J. Rosborough was born on Aug. 30, 1865, in Yreka, Calif., one of six children of District Court Judge A. M. Rosborough and his wife, Helen Raynes.

As the last of the Fourth of July fireworks sputtered out above the Josephine County Fairgrounds racetrack arena in 1926, spectators leaving the bleachers did not notice until too late the sound of creaking, splintering wood. While people waited patiently in line or helped the elderly and children down the steps, the bleachers swayed slightly, followed by a loud crack as they collapsed.