An article published 100 years ago in the Medford Mail-Tribune predicted motor trucks would replace railroads just as the automobile had pushed aside horses on city streets and country roads.

Before being named Yreka, the Northern California settlement was known as Shasta Butte City, a conglomeration of little more than shanties, brush huts, tents, and rough log structures.

Children returning to Southern Oregon rural schools a century ago faced a first week of clean-up duties uncomfortably familiar to their home chores.

An Alturas doctor who shot up a saloon in the northeastern California town ended up shooting the man who spared his life.

Pioneers of Southern Oregon joined together in 1876 to form a Pioneer Association for preserving their historical settling of a new land. Hundreds of old-timers held their first meeting above the Ashland Plaza and Col. John Ross became the first president.

One of the first wine makers in Oregon, Peter Britt, began growing table grapes on a slope where Britt Music Festival audiences now picnic. He created his first wine in 1858 from a vineyard northeast of town. According to the Jacksonville Review , he sold as many as 3,000 gallons a year for 50 cents a gallon, the equivalent present-day purchasing power of about $14 a gallon. In 1873, the IRS issued him a bill for back taxes.

An ordained Methodist missionary who went among the Smith River Indians to save souls soon became as interested in saving their culture.

On October 5, 1942, a Japanese submarine torpedoed the SS Larry Doheny, which sank off the Southern Oregon Coast near Gold Beach.

A series of early fires plagued the Southern Oregon hamlet of Linkville, Ore., greatly retarding its growth for at least 20 years.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers leased land for a park after constructing the Lost Creek Lake and Dam on the Rogue River in 1977. The following year, the Joseph H. Stewart State Recreation Area opened as a campground with electric facilities and tent sites.