The Rogue Valley population more than doubled between 1942 and 1945, mainly due to construction and opening of the Camp White army training base east of Medford, Ore. The valley experienced an acute shortage of workers.

The combination of heavy snow in the mountains followed by warm rains sporadically brings serious flooding to Southern Oregon and Northern California valleys.

A missionary, the Rev. Moses Allen Williams, came to the gold-mining town of Jacksonville, Ore., in 1857 to establish the first Jackson County Presbyterian Church. He also served as the Jackson County school superintendent from 1862 to 1866.

People said Dale Ross could run like a deer.

The first superintendent to serve full-time at Crater Lake National Park, Alex Sparrow, took the job in 1917. He had been a U.S. Army engineer for 24 years and the park overseer of road construction for five years.

When Heck Timeus was a boy living in Agness, Ore., he witnessed in the fall of 1918 an act that he found embarrassing and could not condone. He said to avoid conflict he waited until after his father’s death to talk about it.

White supremacy had an outspoken advocate in backwater Grants Pass, Ore., between 1924 and 1927 in the form of a short-lived newspaper published by J.J. Hoogstraat, cheerleader for the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

A trick sharpshooter and fancy roper named Ruben Peyton grew up in the same town in Kansas as Buffalo Bill Cody, although Peyton was 11 years his junior.

The Treaty of April 12, 1854, between the U.S. Government and the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians ceded more than 800 square miles of Southern Oregon to the government for 2.3 cents an acre. The band was left landless.

An authentic 1902 one-room schoolhouse is tucked away on the Del Norte County Fairgrounds in Crescent City, Calif.