One of the more intriguing characters in Siskiyou County’s early history was Anton A. Roman. In 1851, Roman went to Scott Bar but after only a few weeks moved on.

In September 2018, anonymous investors bought the isolated Southern Oregon mountain community of Tiller, reportedly to create a river resort along the South Umpqua River. Tiller was listed for sale at $3.85 million, but the purchase price was not revealed immediately.

Two German immigrants in the 1800s, John Wintjen and Herman Von Helms, decided Jacksonville, Ore., needed a bakery, so they opened one, followed by a billiard saloon in 1860.

The lumbermen Scott and Van Arsdale had always envisioned the McCloud Valley Railroad Co.

Forest Service personnel learned to spot enemy planes during World War II, but the ranger at the Cook and Green Camp didn’t need any training on July 29, 1945, to know the small civilian plane that flew over his cabin was in trouble.

A small band of men looking for a lost cache of gold found something worth far more.

The Oregon artist Emil Knutson was educated at St. Mary’s School in Medford, Ore., but his father taught him to paint signs and on canvas.

On Sept. 4, 1894, one hundred guests gathered for a double-wedding at the Guerin farm, near Port Orford, Ore. The nuptials were for Harry Guerin to Ella Bigelow and Tom Guerin to Anna Tichenor.

Explorer Jedediah Smith’s party faced hard times in 1828 while making the first recorded Euro-American journey by land from the California Coast to Oregon.

Many places in Northern California and Southern Oregon honor the name of early explorer Jedediah Smith, including two rivers and the popular Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. But to the Mexican governor of Alta California, Smith was an outlaw.