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Within a year of tossing around the idea, Bandon had its first golf course.The Chamber of Commerce initiated the idea at a meeting on June 9, 1927, and a鈥�
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On Dec. 20, 1924, the Wedderburn, Ore., Social Art Club presented the comedy titled 鈥淢y Friend from India鈥� at the community hall.Most of the audience came鈥�
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On Sept. 9, 1942, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped incendiary bombs near the town of Brookings, Ore.Fujita鈥檚 World War II mission was to start massive鈥�
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In August 1914, the Southern Oregon river hamlet of Illahe held its first picnic and venison barbeque at Gold Bar on the Rogue River. It lasted four days鈥�
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In the late 1800s, William and Irene Willits quit their school teaching jobs to establish a new home in the Cascade Mountains. Near Upper Elk Creek in鈥�
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The December 1902 Medford Mail newspaper featured an article touting the superiority of Talent over Ashland, Ore.The article describes Talent as a place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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In the spring of 1924, rumors began to fly that a Ku Klux Klan organization was being organized in Curry County, Ore.On Sunday, April 29, between 8 and 9鈥�
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Descendants of early Irish immigrants who became sheepherders and cattlemen still live in the Southeastern Oregon town of Lakeview.Thirty-four years ago,鈥�
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Elmer Bankus was a land developer, businessman, and philanthropist who rebuilt the Brookings community after its mainstay employer, the C & O lumber mill,鈥�
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The orchard boom in Southern Oregon at the turn of the last century extended into the mountain valleys around Wolf Creek, where in 1907 a former鈥�
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The U.S. Army rushed to build an airport in Lakeview, Ore., in 1942, completing two 5,200-foot-long runways in 18 months.The Navy took over the base in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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Although Jim Holland founded Holland, Ore., around 1877, the person who really built the town was Jack Smock, who arrived 18 years later.Smock had lost a鈥�