The Oregonian newspaper reported on June 12, 1867, that Capt. Franklin Burnet Sprague of the 1 st Oregon Infantry had announced that land was available in Southern Oregon and Northern California south and east of Klamath Lake.

In 1952, Jacksonville, Ore., celebrated a Gold Rush Jubilee to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the discovery of gold in the town.

Rich placer gold discoveries in 1852 attracted miners to an isolated area near the Rogue River some 25 miles northwest of Grants Pass.

Eleanor Halverson was only 9 years old when her mother died on the family’s Klamath River ranch. The young girl assumed the duties of running the household, including caring for her 5-year-old brother, Charlie.

One of Ashland’s early pioneers, Capt. John McCall, settled in Oregon in 1852 on a mining claim along Jackson Creek in Jackson County. By 1860 he had purchased an interest in the Ashland Flour Mill, and two years later joined the First Regiment of the Oregon Volunteer Cavalry.

Populism, loosely defined as dissatisfaction with ruling elites, has figured prominently in the nation’s political discourse over the past year, but the idea is nothing new in Southern Oregon.

The arrival of the railroad to the remote Butte Valley of Siskiyou County, Calif., brought a burgeoning population with it. A box factory opened in 1911, followed soon by several sawmills and moulding mills. Electricity arrived the same year.

Claudia Spink Lorenz described in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1970 how Klamath Falls celebrated the end of World War I. Twice, to be exact.

In the early days of mapping, between 1907 and 1930, there were plenty of places left to name in the Rogue River National Forest. Employees had to come up with something to call the remaining streams, gaps and peaks without official names.

Medford, Ore., held its own Grand Prix race on July 3, 1911, just two months after the first-ever Indianapolis 500 race.