/tags/ore Ore en-US Copyright Fri, 05 Jul 2019 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-07-05/as-it-was-agness-women-sponsor-1917-fourth-of-july-festivities In 1917, The Ladies Improvement Club of Agness, Ore., organized a Fourth of July celebration for the people of Curry County.Admission to the two-night,… Fri, 05 Jul 2019 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-07-05/as-it-was-agness-women-sponsor-1917-fourth-of-july-festivities Laurel Gerkman /show/as-it-was/2019-06-24/as-it-was-brooklyn-native-lends-his-name-to-murphy-ore Brooklyn native Barney Murphy filed a 160-acre land claim on the lower Applegate River in 1854. Most of the land lay south of the river and included the… Mon, 24 Jun 2019 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-06-24/as-it-was-brooklyn-native-lends-his-name-to-murphy-ore Luana (Loffer) Corbin /show/as-it-was/2019-04-09/as-it-was-jacksonville-creating-granite-pathway-of-history Pedestrians approaching the Jacksonville, Ore., City Hall will soon be taking a walk through history.The city’s Boosters Club is replacing sidewalk panels… Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-04-09/as-it-was-jacksonville-creating-granite-pathway-of-history Kernan Turner /show/as-it-was/2018-12-27/as-it-was-isolated-agnes-ore-bolsters-soldiers-spirits In December 1917, members of the isolated hamlet Agness, Ore., gathered for a potluck lunch and social time at their community hall.The principal feature… Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2018-12-27/as-it-was-isolated-agnes-ore-bolsters-soldiers-spirits Laurel Gerkman /show/as-it-was/2018-12-24/as-it-was-rain-fails-to-spoil-1880-christmas-ball-in-ellensburg-ore In 1880, inclement weather took a toll on the expected attendance at Miss Anna Geisel’s Christmas Eve Ball, held in her newly opened dance hall in… Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:00:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2018-12-24/as-it-was-rain-fails-to-spoil-1880-christmas-ball-in-ellensburg-ore Laurel Gerkman /show/as-it-was/2018-10-19/as-it-was-investors-buy-nearly-deserted-southern-oregon-town In September 2018, anonymous investors bought the isolated Southern Oregon mountain community of Tiller, reportedly to create a river resort along the… Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2018-10-19/as-it-was-investors-buy-nearly-deserted-southern-oregon-town Kernan Turner /show/as-it-was/2018-08-10/as-it-was-jacksonville-ore-builds-first-city-hall-in-1881 It was late January 1881 when a woman who had imbibed “too much tangle-foot” became the first occupant of the jail in the new city hall in Jacksonville,… Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2018-08-10/as-it-was-jacksonville-ore-builds-first-city-hall-in-1881 Alice Mullaly /history/2018-07-03/as-it-was-harbor-ore-celebrates-1917-fourth-of-july In 1917, families from all over the Southern Oregon Coast gathered in Harbor, at the Antler Hotel, for an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration.The… Tue, 03 Jul 2018 07:01:00 GMT /history/2018-07-03/as-it-was-harbor-ore-celebrates-1917-fourth-of-july Laurel Gerkman /show/as-it-was/2017-12-08/as-it-was-town-of-merganser-rivals-linkville-present-day-klamath-falls-ore By 1905, when the book titled “An Illustrated History of Central Oregon” was written, the town of Merganser was dead, lingering only in the memories of… Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:00:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2017-12-08/as-it-was-town-of-merganser-rivals-linkville-present-day-klamath-falls-ore Kernan Turner /show/as-it-was/2017-12-07/as-it-was-huge-hot-water-geyser-erupts-in-adel-ore-in-1959 Charles Crump had no forewarning of what would come of his contacting the Nevada Thermal Power Co. that was looking for geothermal sources for power… Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:00:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2017-12-07/as-it-was-huge-hot-water-geyser-erupts-in-adel-ore-in-1959 Luana (Loffer) Corbin