Nationally known historian and photographer Frances Fuller Victor first visited Crater Lake in 1873. She was accompanied by Oliver Cromwell Applegate, a member of the well-known pioneer family. Victor perched on a large rock 900 feet above the water to admire the lake’s beauty, inspiring Applegate later to name the overlook Victor Rock.

Two married brothers were farmers in their hometown of Red Bluff, Calif., when they decided to try their hand at cattle ranching. The brothers, John B. and Richard B. Graves, spent most of their money on 80 head of cows in 1890. They moved to Trinity County in search of good grazing ground and a place to build their homes.

An “electrical butcher” was killing people in Grants Pass in 1924, according to the short-lived Southern Oregon Spokesman newspaper.

Two Kerby, Ore., high school teachers learned the hard way one Saturday night in June 1925 that Prohibition was strictly enforced.

The Medford, Ore., softball complex at Jackson Park is named after Ben and Helen Fagone.

Ashland, Ore, has been trying for years to avoid major fires in the watershed above town. Until settlers began arriving in the 1850s, the indigenous people used low-intensity fire to herd deer, reducing fuel content in the watershed. As settlers pushed aside the Indians, the forest thickened, becoming susceptible to wildfires.

Today the coastal town of Port Orford holds a Fourth of July celebration called the Port Orford Jubilee that more than a century ago was known as the Agate Festival held on Agate Beach in August.

William Hoffman celebrated his 72 nd birthday with a companion near Fort Klamath, Ore., on Sept. 7, 1873, after making a memorable trip to Crater Lake. They took the freight-train route to Fort Klamath via the Rogue River, camped about three miles below Crater Lake, and hiked up to see it.

By recording history with his camera for nearly 70 years, Ashland photographer Terry Skibby has become a historical figure in the process.

A stagecoach driver who eventually settled in the Applegate Valley routinely drove between Roseburg and Jacksonville for two years in the early 1880s.