Most winters, Upper Klamath Lake becomes an immense sheet of ice for up to 20 miles.

One of the Rogue Valley’s most famous residents is Don Maddox, son of a sharecropper and a country music legend at age 96.

There was a time when robberies were so frequent on the 55-mile stage route through the Cascade Mountains between Klamath Falls and Ager, Calif., that Wells, Fargo & Co. refused to transport valuables.

Here’s a glimpse into life, circa 1924, on the Southern Oregon Coast:

For eons, Sisters Rock sat undisturbed, but in 1893 S. H. Frank purchased the natural harbor formation, located midway between Port Orford and Gold Beach, Ore., for storing and shipping tanoak bark to his tannery in San Francisco.

Tree toppers had one of logging’s most dangerous jobs in the 1930s. Carrying an ax, saw, and sometimes large pulleys, they climbed to the top of a tall tree with spurs fastened to boots and a leather strap around the tree trunk.

The same federal agency that partially drained Northern California’s Tule Lake to create fertile farmland in the early 1900s considered, but rejected, something similar in Southern Oregon more than a half century later.

A treacherous part of the Applegate Trail in the 1840s was sliding covered wagons down steep mountain slopes.

John and Sarah Alberg emigrated from Sweden to Northern California in 1874, settling in Shasta County, where they raised and sold vegetables, primarily potatoes. They also milked cows for butter.

Pedestrians approaching the Jacksonville, Ore., City Hall will soon be taking a walk through history.