Category Community Events

Saturday, May 16, will be your last opportunity to compare the changes 126 years has made in our lifestyles when Historic Jacksonville, Inc.

Join Siskiyou Singers and Artistic Director Mark Reppert for Vecinos en Armonía: Neighbors in Harmony, a lively spring celebration of Latin American music.

The Southern Oregon Historical Society invites you to join us for an inaugural event celebrating Oregon’s official American 250 statewide commemoration. On Thursday, May 14, from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Rogue Valley Country Club,

Local historian Sue Waldron was introduced to early twentieth-century Jacksonville artist Regina Dorland Robinson’s work in 1986 when she began working in the Exhibits Department of the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS).

You’ll want to save these Hanley Farm Heritage Plant sale dates: April 25 & 26!  SOHS Volunteers have potted over 70 varieties of plants for this sale, most of which are from Hanley Farm.

Oregon’s Russell family is well-known for their headstone monument carving business. Less well-known is the side of their family that lived in Siskiyou County, who were also locally prominent stone carvers. This presentation will delve into the Russell family connections and stories, early days in Siskiyou County, the stone carving business, and the stone arch created for San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expedition, a celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal and San Francisco's recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fires.

JACKSONVILLE, OR—An old song notes, “What a difference a day makes!” Well, think about what a difference 126 years can make! Time travel with Historic Jacksonville, Inc. on one of four Saturdays—February 28, March 21, April 18, or May 16—for a “retro” tour of 1900 daily life when we open Jacksonville’s 1870s C.C. Beekman House Museum for “Daily Life Then and Now:1900 vs. 2026.”

The Oregon Trail computer game, first released in 1971, became almost ubiquitous in American schools by the 1980s. In this lecture, we'll go on the Trail to see how the game stacks up to the reality of the hundreds of thousands who emigrated west. What it gets right: A lot of people did die of dysentery. What it doesn't: You cannot get there faster by mashing the spacebar.