Oregon Historical Society.

Medford, Oregon, pioneered aviation in Southern Oregon and has long enjoyed a reputation for being an air-minded city. When the City of Medford built Newell Barber Field in 1920, it established the first municipally owned airfield in the state. In 1926, Pacific Air Transport selected Medford as a station for the West Coast airmail route. While Portland's airmail service was located across the river at Vancouver's Pearson Field in Washington, Medford's...

It was the winter of 1851-1852 when the word "gold" echoed throughout the valley. Soon hundreds of gold miners flocked to Table Rock City, later renamed Jacksonville. In short order, families arrived and took out donation land claims and began farming, raising stock, and opening businesses. Many had already emmigrated from Europe, Canada, Ireland, and England. Jacksonville had its own Chinatown that was home to the many Chinese who had traveled far...

"The discovery of gold brought thousands of Chinese to eastern Oregon in the 1880s - including herbal doctor Ing Hay and businessman Lung on. Together they practiced medicine and operated a general store, Kam Wah Chung & Co., near the town of John Day becoming highly regarded members of the community. Meet people who remember these two men and visit the recently restored building - an Oregon treasure filled with thousands of different herbs and artifacts."--Container....

From case: "As a young West Point graduate, Charles Erskine Scott Wood fought in the tragic Nez Perce War of 1877. He's credited with recording Chief Joseph's famous surrender speech. An artist, poet, essayist, civic leader and prominent Portland attorney, C.E.S. Wood was a powerful advocate for the poor and dispossessed."