In 1941, Florence Camp Lowery felt fortunate that she was hired as the teacher at the one-room Quosatne schoolhouse, located 15 miles up the Rogue River near the present-day Quosatana Creek and Forest Service campground.

For many years, the prosperity of Ashland, Ore., like other Rogue Valley communities, depended on a booming timber industry for prosperity.

The C. Fridiger building on North Central in downtown Medford was the site of several small businesses during the 1920s and 1930s.

In the early days, isolated Curry County settlers built schools that serviced several neighboring homesteads. Students of all ages walked or rode horses on trails to school, often accompanied by their dogs.

Irish immigrant Peter Fitzpatrick did not stay in the East for long before he caught gold fever and headed West with a friend named Henderson.

When he came to Southern Oregon in the early 1840s looking for adventure, Isaac Boyle purchased a horse and a string of mules with the idea of entering the fur trade.

Limestone mined from the side of Marble Mountain in Wilderville, Ore., kept a Gold Hill cement factory supplied with some 3.6 million tons of ore between 1917 and 1967.

Life was an adventure for Charlotte Rose Henry as a child in Cottonwood, Calif. Her parents, Leland and Gladys Cunningham Rose, both born in 1898, were hardworking, but never stopped having fun.

On Sept. 9, 1942, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped incendiary bombs near the town of Brookings, Ore.

Cannery fish wars came to a head in August 1916 with a fight in the middle of the Rogue River.