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Wagner House

47 Granite Street, Ashland; owned by Jacob Wagner then his son Frederick Wagner.

Ashland, OR, Historic Houses, etc Wagner House Vertical File Subjects
Travel Preparations

"Travel Preparations" from Rural Heritage magazine by Jenifer Morrissey.  Tell of journey to Crater Lake, Lake of the Woods, Huckleberry…

Roads-Military & Wagon Vertical File Subjects
Jackson County Orchards

"Jackson County Orchards" in Rural Heritage magazine by Jenifer Morrissey.  Speaks of Dan Glenn, Olwell Bros, Ashland Mills, Asa Fordyce…

Fruit Culture Folder 1 Vertical File Subjects
MI184951n

Southern Pacific Motor Car Service

Railroads: Southern Pacific Motor Car Service Vertical File Subjects
Carnegie building

Medford, OR, Libraries, Carnegie building folder

Medford, OR, Libraries, Carnegie Vertical File Subjects
Laurelhurst

Folder has info on Laurelhurst and other communities (McLeod, Leeds) that were covered by Lost Creek Lake 

Vertical File Subjects
First Lake Creek fire truck Lake Creek Vertical File Subjects
Winchester Inn Ashland, OR, Historic Houses, etc., Winchester Inn Vertical File Subjects
Azalea

content related to Azalea, unincorporated area in Jackson County 

VF Vertical File Subjects
Darling, John

MMT 12-30-2020 Article (pre-obituary),  Ashland Tiding 3-13-2021 Obituary

DA Vertical File Biographies
Matoush, Lyle Francis

ATidings 1-22-2021 Obituary

MA Vertical File Biographies
Edward Hungerford

MMT 2-24-2021 Obituary

HU Vertical File Biographies
George Meuser

MMT 2-25-2021 Obituary

ME Vertical File Biographies
Charles (Chuck) Glenn Eccleston

MMT 3/31/2021 Obituary

EC Vertical File Biographies
Opp, John W.

!055 Obituary and familiy tree

O Vertical File Biographies
Brewer, Marylen

MMT article 4/21/1981 Bunny costumes

Br Vertical File Biographies
Seeley Hall

From the Aviation Council (excerpted from Seeley Hall: Jackson County's Father of Aviation by Bill Alley

Hall, Seeley Vertical File Biographies
Meuser, George

Obituary.  5/14/1937  to2/19/2021

Me Vertical File Biographies
A Legacy That's Still Running Strong

Article on Zellah and Jerry Swartsley and the Southern Oregon Runners club

sw Vertical File Biographies
Erika Thormahlen: Listen to your vegetables

Ashland Native creates new Netflix series produced by Michelle Obama

Video Production Vertical File Biographies
Tim Trower: Playing Through

Sports Editor Tim Trower calls it a career after 31 years at the Mail Tribune Sports Desk

TR Vertical File Biographies
Curtis Barnes: Disney Animator, Orchardist, Tinkerer

Two articles about the Tipssy Bee Farm

BA Vertical File Biographies
"Nightmare" in Pen and Ink: Pinto Colvig as Silver State Cartoonist

Article by Bill Alley in the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly

Pinto Colvig Vertical File Biographies
Jerry Swartsley: 74,703 miles..and Two Feet

Jerry has run around the world 3 times--measuring distance.

SW Vertical File Biographies
Dr. Patrick Denard: MEDFORD doctor receives world recognition

Patrick Denard, a physician at the Oregon Shoulder Institute in Medford was ranked 2nd for rotator cuff repair and 17th for shoulder replacement…

De Vertical File Biographies
Mary Hanley's Will

Stapled copy of will

Hanley, Mary Love Vertical File Biographies
Holmes House added to Historic Register

Article about the historic house which has now become a hospice.  It was designed by the first African American member of the American Institute…

Holmes. Vertical File Biographies
A New Aspect of the Stilled Life of Artist Dorland Robinson

Rediscovered works.  By Paul Fattig

Robinson, Regina Dorland Vertical File Biographies
Country Music Pioneer (Don Maddox) from Ashland dies at 98

Star of Grand Ole Opry
In Ken Burns Country Music film

Maddox Vertical File Biographies
Ashland's Grand Old Lady forever etched in history

Ann, married Major James Russell, had 11 children, and became a marble carver.  Weighed 90 lbs. 

Hill Vertical File Biographies