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Vertical File Subjects Park Bear Family proves Friendly to Auto Visitors

The 1935 Mail Tribune reports a family of bears fearlessly playing around cars at Crater Lake.  The luckiest ones watch the cubs play around…

Vertical Files, Subject, Bears
Vertical File Subjects Kill 1000 Crows by dynamite at Gold Ray Roost

Ten to twelve thousand crows hanging around a rookery on an island in the Rogue River.  These pests destroy duck and other eggs and affect…

Vertical Files, Subject, Birds
Vertical File Subjects CP Cheese Plant prepares to Open

These 1934 issues of the Mail Tribune explain the beginning of Rogue Valley Cheese production.  The plant had 2 1100 vats, purchased at least…

Vertical File Subjects, Central Point, OR, Businesses, Rogue Valley Creamery.
Vertical File Subjects Caves City Fire Wipes Out Main Business Block

Caves City , a fast growing town near the junction of the Redwood and Oregon Caves highway, was destroyed in a blaze.  Burned were the…

Vertical File Subjects, Cave Junction
Vertical File Subjects Combine Shrubs at Court House Experts Advice

Two articles in a 1934 Mail Tribune discuss the proper landscape for the Jacksonville court house grounds.

Vertical File, Subjects, Jacksonville, OR, Historic Houses, Court house
Vertical File Subjects The Bryden House

The Bryden House as it now stands was built in 1910in the Oak Lawn subdivision which had been designated that "no building less than $2500 be…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford Oregon, Historic Houses, South Oakdale District
Vertical File Subjects CCC and the Oregon Caves tie memories together.

Columnist Paul Fattig writes about a photo of his dad and his CCC crew at the entrance of the Oregon Caves, and remembers other Oregon caves he…

Vertical File, Subjects, Oregon Caves
Vertical File Subjects The Chautauqua in Ashland

The Chautauqua movement started in 1874 in New York, and Ashland started theirs in 1893.  Ashland erected a large beehive looking domed…

Vertical File Subjects, Ashland, OR, Chautauqua
Vertical File Subjects Three Oaks: A History

The Three Oaks Country Store was once the home of James and Margaret Savage.  It is one of the oldest buildings in Southern Oregon, built in…

Vertical File Subjects, Rogue River, Businesses.
Vertical File Subjects History Comes Alive on Medford cemetery tour

Eastwood IOOF Cemetery tour guide Steven Corelis gives monthly tours and points our past mayors, lawmen, war heros, do-gooders and business…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, Or, Cemeteries
Vertical File Subjects Preserving Sweat Equity, North Medford High Gym

Athletic Director Piet Voskes was on his way to remove and restore trophies and sports memorabilia when the gym roof caved in.  The 60 year…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR., North Medford Highv
Vertical File Subjects Throusands join "Hands Off' Protests in Medford

Demonstrators gathered Saturday on streets near Hawthorne Park and then Vogel Plaza for more than four hours.  Between 2000 and 3000 people…

Vertical File Subjects,, Medford, Or, Politics and Government.
Vertical File Subjects Grants Pass Daily Courier

GPDaileyCourier 8-3-2025, Orson Gilbert, Henry Miller, W.J. Wimer, Amos E. Voorhies, Earle E. Voorhies, John Voorhies

Grants Pass, OR, History
Vertical File Subjects Logging Bobsled

"Restoring a Piece of Logging History", 3-28-2025 from Hansen Wheel & Wagon Shop Tyke Frost

Lumber and Lumbering
Vertical File Subjects The Rogue 2000 Plan

Evergreen 1988, A Community Based Alternative to the Rogue River National Forest Draft Forest Plan, Mike Burrill, Patti Bills, Bob Johnson, Bill…

Lumber and Lumbering
Vertical File Subjects One-Room Schools

MMT 10-29-1978 article, Elga Abbott, Gill Edmondson, Ernest Smith, Carlos Morris, 

Jackson County, OR, Schools, 1800-1940
Vertical File Subjects Hugo Max Mayer

MMT 1-14-1935 article, Curry county hermit convicted of killing rancher Robert Franz and committed to life in hospital for the insane.

Hermits
Vertical File Subjects The Making of a New Western Hero

The Forest Ranger in Popular Fiction, 1900-1940 by Jeff LaLande published in Journal of Forestry November 2000 pages 43-50 includes a copy of a…

VF Rogue River National Forest
Vertical File Subjects Pacific Northwest Quarterly

April 1992 Vol 83 No 2 includes "Beneath the Hooded Robe: Newspapermen, Local Politics and the Ku Klux Klan in Jackson County, Oregon 1921-1923

Vertical File Subjects - Ku Klux Klan (1922-23)
Vertical File Subjects The Stories We Haven't told: The Evolving Narrative of Historic Hanley Farm

by Emma Walruff - Capstone project Southern Oregon University 2025 

Vertical File Subjects New history center aims for summer opening

Historic Jacksonville is heading a project which will result in a new museum in Jacksonville.  The last museum closed in 2009.  Hoping…

Vertical File Subjects, Jacksonville, OR, Museums
Vertical File Subjects World War ll and Southern Oregon

Dennis Powers page long history of events of World War ll centered on three themes:  Camp White, Japanese Submarine Attacks, and Fire Bombs…

Vertical File Subjects, World War, 1939-1945, World War II
Vertical File Subjects Talent becomes Olivia's Valley

Michael Learned who plays Olivia Walton on the TV series The Waltons was guest of honor at the ribbon cutting ceremonies at the completion of…

Vertical File Subjects, Talent, Or., Planning
Vertical File Subjects A Rich History

Phoenix Pioneer Cemetery marks 150 years and a new metal archway marking the entrance.  Volunteers observed the anniversary with cake and…

Vertical File Subjects, Phoenix, Or, Cemeteries
Vertical File Subjects Furniture Co. leases Store on West Main

Swenson and Peebler Furniture Company of Ashland moves to Medford with employees and entire stock of household Goods.  The building will be…

Vertical File, Subjects, Medford, Or., Businesses, General
Vertical File Subjects The Final Days of Medco

Two pages of articles on the closing of Medco:  Medico Mill's death means higher prices for building supplies explains how the price of…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, Or, Businesses, Wood Products.
Vertical File Subjects History: Total Loss

North Medford High gym suffers catastrophic damage after Tuesday roof collapse; district says structure will be demolished and rebuilt.  The…

Vertical File Subjects, Medford, Or, Schools, North Medford, HS
Vertical File Subjects The Footlights Theater

Three newspaper clips of plays:  Farewell, Farewell Eugene, photo and cast, The Third Best Sport, cast and photo, and The Monkey's Paw and…

Vertical File Subjects, Theater
Vertical File Subjects 820 years of tree

News photo from 1985 Mail Tribune.  The huge tree was 8 1/2 feet in diameter.

Vertical File, Subjects, Trees
Vertical File Subjects A Cultural Inventory of the Nugget Butte Communications Site Project

These two packets of information from the Butte Falls Field Office describes the arrow and beacon fixtures that illuminated the way for the first…

Vertical File Subjects, Aviation, Air Mail/PAT