Crater Lake National Park features a deep blue lake inside the volcanic caldera of Mount Mazama, which blew its top about 7,700 years ago. The mountain was 12,140 feet high, its summit a mile higher than the surface of the lake today.

In the early 1900s, the Siskiyou National Forest had more than 70 forest lookout stations on Southwest Oregon mountaintops. Pearsoll Peak is the only one of them to make the National Register of Historic Places.

A sourdough created at least 100 years ago by Scott Valley, Calif., gold miner is still alive and leavening delicious bread and flapjacks.

In 1919, three World War I aviators from Medford, Ore., Seely Hall, Floyd Hart, and Frank Farrell, formed an aviation corporation, the Medford Aeroplane, Co., and sold $100-shares to stockholders. Their goal was to sell rides to Rogue Valley residents.

The Western writer Zane Grey saw something in Claude Bardon worthy of a main character in a book.

The Brown girls, Jennie, Mary and Emogene, were born in Oregon in the 1860s. They grew up shifting summer and winter between the family’s two properties, spending winters on a gold claim on Sterling Creek out of Jacksonville, and summers on a large cattle ranch east of Eagle Point.

Eight Illinois Valley women organized the Friday Afternoon Garden Club in 1927, changing the name later to the Illinois Valley Garden Club.

When he was born, Bahamas was weak and not expected to survive. He was an unremarkable crossed Angus-Jersey steer on a farm two miles upriver from Klamath, Calif. With bottle feeding and tender care he grew strong, gentle, beloved -- and lived to inspire a community.

Growing up in rural Oregon communities in the early 1900s was a combination of hard farm and ranch work, a few months of school and lots of good times. For the Charley family in Brownsboro, chores always came first -- and there were plenty of them.

By 1900, the United States had some 210,000 one-room schools, at least 100 of them in Siskiyou County, Calif.