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As It Was episodes
- As It Was: Grants Pass Claims Country’s First Auto CampIn 1923, Grants Pass claimed to have invented the auto camp, based on Chamber of Commerce records showing the first camp opened in May 1915.2 min
- As It Was: Jacksonville, Ore., Builds First City Hall in 1881It was late January 1881 when a woman who had imbibed “too much tangle-foot” became the first occupant of the jail in the new city hall in Jacksonville, Ore.2 min
- As It Was: Gold Hill Craft Business Offers Free CoconutIn March 1965, the owner of Novelcraft Plastics in Gold Hill, Ore., Lew Trickey, ordered 3,500 pounds of coconuts from San Francisco said to be “fresh from the tropics.” Trickey wanted the coconut husks for his craft business.2 min
- As It Was: Copco Dams Provide Electricity for Klamath GrowthThe first large hydroelectric facility on the Klamath River entered service 100 years ago, providing an abundant source of power for residents of Northern California and Southern Oregon. The dam, known as Copco 1, generated 11 megawatts of electricity.2 min
- As It Was: Elmer Bankus Sustains and Improves Brookings, Ore.Elmer Bankus was a land developer, businessman, and philanthropist who rebuilt the Brookings community after its mainstay employer, the C & O lumber mill, shut down in 1925.2 min
- As It Was: Applegates Make Friends with Yoncalla Indian ChiefWhen the Applegate family moved to Yoncalla, Ore., in 1848, they made friends with Chief Halotish, or Halo, leader of the regional Kalapuya tribe. He and his family helped the Applegates farm and cared for their livestock.2 min
- As It Was: Banished Miner Survives Alone, Strikes GoldMost of the stories from the old mining camps of Waldo and Allentown died with the miners who lived there, but John Eggers remembered a few.2 min
- As It Was: William Powell Becomes Known as Ashland’s Cider ManWilliam Powell and his family came to the Oregon Territory after the Civil War and settled in the little town of Ashland, consisting of small woolen and flour mills and a Southern Pacific railroad depot.2 min
- As It Was: Abel Helman’s Pasture Becomes Ashland SpaDoes natural mineral water cure rheumatism? Early southern Oregonians believed it did. At one point, the Ashland area had five spring-water spas, one of them on Ashland pioneer Abel Helman’s property near today’s Lithia Park.2 min
- As It Was: Railroad Arrival Brings Boom to Klamath Falls, Ore.The advance of the California Northeastern railroad from Weed, Calif., toward the Upper Klamath Basin in 1908 brought an end to hauling freight by pack trains or in wagons during the long winter months.2 min
About As It Was
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Colorful vignettes dedicated to the regional history of Southern Oregon and Northern California. As It Was is an all volunteer effort -- produced by Raymond Scully and narrated by Shirley Patton in…
partnership with writers from the Southern Oregon Historical Society.If you have a writing background and would like to submit an As It Was essay for consideration, email your written piece to [email protected] collection of As It Was essays is available in a high-quality paperback book at the JPR Online Store. Each episode is also available below.