As It Was Stories

As It Was stories are created by volunteers who are interested in sharing the history of the mythical State of Jefferson. Each day Jefferson Public Radio presents a new As It Was vignette. On this website you can read all of the stories, or search for your favorites. Click on the Jefferson Public Radio links provided if you wish to listen to a podcast or read the full text of stories published before September 2013.

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Episode 3346, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, by Alice Mullaly

Heroes Respond to 1894 Silver Lake Christmas Eve Fire
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Episode 3345, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, by Sharon Bywater

Klamath Junction Emerges from Drought-Stricken Emigrant Lake
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Episode 3344, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, by Alice Mullaly

Kenn KnackstedtRecords Southern Oregon in Pictures

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Episode 3343, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, by Sharon Bywater

George Riddle Witnesses Change and Turmoil in Early Oregon
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Episode 3342, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, by Alice Mullaly

Cow Creek Umpquas Befriend First Southern Oregon Settlers
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Episode 3341, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2017, by LYNDA DEMSHER

Rising Star of Investment Sells Bogus Oregon Mine Shares
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Episode 3340, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2017, by MAUREEN FLANAGAN BATTISTELLA

Medford and Ashland Get Southern Oregon’s Early Elevators
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Episode 3339, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, by Alice Mullaly

Eastern Star Chapters Grow Rapidly in Southern Oregon
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Episode 3338, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, by Kernan Turner

Town of Merganser Rivals Linkville, Present-Day Klamath Falls, Ore.
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Episode 3337, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, by Luana Loffer Corbin

Huge Hot Water Geyser Erupts in Adel, Ore. in 1959
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Episode 3336, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, by Sharon Bywater

Ohio Cabinet Maker, Abel Helman, Settles in Ashland, Ore.
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Episode 3335, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, by Sharon Bywater

Anna and Ida Hargrove Record Ashland, Ore., in Pictures
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Episode 3334, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, by Gail Fiorini-Jenner

Northern California Mining Towns Spring Up in the 1850s
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Episode 3333, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, by Laurel Gerkman

Chetco Bridge on Coastal U.S. Route 101 Collapses in 1925
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Episode 3332, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, by Kernan Turner

Tolman Creek Road Named after Pioneer James Clark Tolman
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Episode As It Was Stories by Carol Barrett
67 Smith Crosses the Umpqua (1828, massacre, Arthur Black) In the Explorers and Trappers
66 Jedediah Smith (1828, ) In the Explorers and Trappers
65 Ogden at Grants Pass (1827) In the Explorers and Trappers
64 Ogden at Table Rock (1827) In the Explorers and Trappers
63 Gladiolus ( Josephine Co, Glad Show, Shirley Temple.) In the Business section of the As
62 Last Lynching 1935 C.L. Johnson. Mob revenge In the Law and Order section of the
61 Kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel 1933, Alvin Scott In the Law and Order section of the
60 Charles Lindbergh 1927, Flew in for some fishing In the lnteresting People section
59 De Autremont Brothers 1923, train robbers, Ashland In the Law and Order section of the
58 John B. Gruelle 1923 Raggedy Ann In the lnteresting People section
57 Jesse Winburn 1920, Ashland entrepreneur In the lnteresting People section
56 Jack London at Crater Lake 1911, Nash Hotel In the lnteresting People section
55 Theodore Roosevelt 1903, passed through In the lnteresting People section
54 Nearly Hanged 1900. Callahan, CA In the Law and Order section of the
53 Execution of Frank Smith 1899 sentence cvommuted. In the Law and Order section of the

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