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Carol Highsmith/Library of CongressThe Britt 老夫子传媒 and Arts Festival has struck a deal with Jackson County to purchase a historic building in Jacksonville. Once the sale is finalized, the festival has plans to convert the building into an office and performance space. -
Roman Battaglia/JPR NewsIn Jacksonville Tuesday night, Oregon State Senator Jeff Golden answered questions about what鈥檚 next after the botched rollout of the state wildfire risk map this summer.
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Historic Jacksonville, Oregon has been without a museum since 2010. But new efforts could bring a modern museum experience to the 19th century gold mining town. -
From the 1800s to the present day, Britt Hill in Jacksonville has created memories for residents as well as visitors to the historic town.Today鈥檚鈥�
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Pedestrians approaching the Jacksonville, Ore., City Hall will soon be taking a walk through history.The city鈥檚 Boosters Club is replacing sidewalk panels鈥�
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When the gold rush town of Jacksonville, Ore., attracted thousands of miners in 1852, two men started a lucrative pack train business to bring supplies to鈥�
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One of the oldest known business sites in Jacksonville is located at the corner of California and Oregon Streets, occupied today by the Scheffel鈥檚 Toys鈥�
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The approach of Halloween is often accompanied by stories of ghosts and otherworldly spirits.One of the many tales about haunted houses concerns the Helms鈥�
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It was late January 1881 when a woman who had imbibed 鈥渢oo much tangle-foot鈥� became the first occupant of the jail in the new city hall in Jacksonville,鈥�
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The Jackson County Courthouse, newly renovated in 2016 with modern heating and air conditioning, has transitioned into the Jacksonville, Ore., City Hall.鈥�
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Jacksonville, the original county seat of Jackson County, didn鈥檛 have a proper courthouse until 1884. For years, court had been convened in a crudely鈥�
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In 1952, Jacksonville, Ore., celebrated a Gold Rush Jubilee to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold in the town. The town鈥�
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The usual explanation for why the railroad passes through Medford, Ore., instead of Jacksonville is Jacksonville鈥檚 failure in 1884 to pay a $25,000鈥�
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Political conflict is not new in America -- or Jackson County, for that matter.After the Confederate鈥檚 successful attack on Fort Sumter in 1861 touched鈥�
