Born in Port Angeles, Wash., in 1946, Bill Warren grew accustomed to airplanes flying over his family farm beneath the flight path of the local airport. When he was eight, the family moved to Medford, Ore., where Warren soon became a fixture at the airport. Warren held the controls of an airplane for the first time at age 10, and by 15 he had earned his private pilot certificate. He was headed for a career in aviation.

Ashland historian Jeff LaLande has traced the convoluted naming of Mount McLoughlin, the dominant landmark of Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley.

The quaint, remote communities of Igo and Ono in Shasta County, Calif., are a pair of settlements established during the gold rush.

In the 1970s, historian Kay Atwood of Ashland, Ore., spent three years getting to know the people born in one of the most isolated regions in Southern Oregon. In 1978 she told their story in the book titled “Illahe: The story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon.”

Millie Perkins had never studied acting when she was selected for the title role in the 1959 film version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

Brooklyn native Barney Murphy filed a 160-acre land claim on the lower Applegate River in 1854. Most of the land lay south of the river and included the mouth of Gray’s Creek. That is how Murphy, Ore., got its name.

Gold mining in Southern Oregon that began in the 19 th century has never completely come to an end.

Misunderstandings resulting from two conflicting treaties, one made in California and the other in Oregon, contributed to the tensions between white settlers and Indians that led to the Modoc War of 1872-73.

Many pioneer gravesites have been lost over time, requiring great effort to locate them. One of them is the Turtle Gulch Cemetery in Shasta County, Calif., where 57 identified gravesites are barely visible from a road in the Bald Hills.

In June 1934, Ed Huntington was badly injured in eastern Curry County and had to walk 28 miles through the wilderness for help.