The Daughters of the Nile, a Masonic organization for women, came to the Rogue Valley in 1922, nine years after its founding. An elocution teacher in Grants Pass, Laura Gunnell, became interested in the concept after visiting a friend in Seattle who was a member.

In 1971, internationally known, realist painter Geoffrey Lewis his wife and four children moved from San Francisco to Ashland Ore.

The builders of the Ashland, Ore., historic armory between 1912 and 1913 had more in mind than training Oregon National Guardsmen. They equipped it with a stage that could be rented to provide money for military social gatherings. More than 100 years later, it remains a popular venue for Ashland entertainment, ranging from rock concerts to Martin Luther King Day celebrations.

Although the Great Depression hit Southern Oregon hard despite the active mining and agriculture that dominated the region, Dust Bowl migrants headed there, looking for work.

In 1903, the Little Nanny ship was in service transporting goods between Eureka and Klamath, Calif., when a couple of unusual passengers were brought aboard.

Located near the gold fields of Siskiyou, Klamath, Del Norte, and Trinity counties, the Scott and Shasta valleys became early Northern California areas to be developed agriculturally.

In spring of 1936, the Reliance Production Corp. chose two locations in Del Norte County, Calif., as settings for the film “The Last of the Mohicans,” based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper.

In 1912, Gold Beach erected a new courthouse, which turned out to be the finest place in town for pasturing sheep, because the front square was enclosed with a fence.

The first public school district in Southern Oregon, School District No. 1, opened in Jacksonville on Aug. 11, 1854.

In Siskiyou County, the gold mining settlements of Yreka, Hawkinsville, and Greenhorn held more than 5,000 people in 1856-1857, who were starved for entertainment and welcomed any troupe that passed through the region. Yreka boasted two theaters at the time, the Colton and the Arcade, packed on Saturday nights with people with gold in their pockets.