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November 13, 1966. Designated NHLD. November 13, 1966. The Jacksonville Historic District encompasses the historic core of the 19th-century mining town of Jacksonville, Oregon. The city was a major mining, civic, and commercial center from 1852 to 1884, and declined thereafter, leaving a little-altered assemblage of architecture from that period.
41-37000 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1122366 [4] Website. www.jacksonvilleor.us. Jacksonville is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Medford. It was named for Jackson Creek, which flows through the community and was the site of one of the first placer gold claims in the area.
This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1]
Ownership of the historic courthouse was transferred to the City of Jacksonville in 2012. [5] The SOHS still operates Hanley Farm in Central Point and a research library in Medford. The current Jackson County Courthouse, also listed on the NRHP, is in Medford, where the county seat was moved in 1926.
Peter Britt (Obstalden, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland 12 March 1819 - Jacksonville, Oregon, 3 October 1905) was a Swiss portrait painter and American pioneer photographer, meteorologist, accomplished horticulturist, an early settler and developer in the Rogue Valley of the Oregon Territory. Britt is considered as one of the Pacific Northwest's ...
The Society was organized on December 17, 1898, in Portland at the Portland Library Building. [1] Its mission, as expressed in the first volume of its Oregon Historical Quarterly, was to "bring together in the most complete measure possible the data for the history of the commonwealth, and to stimulate the widest and highest use of them."
Cornelius C. Beekman House. / 42.312672; -122.963760. The Cornelius C. Beekman House is a historic structure in Jacksonville, Oregon, United States. The house was constructed between 1870 and 1876, and the Oregon Historic Preservation Office, part of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, places the year closer to 1873. [1]
In 1991 the two-story Oregon State Archives Building was opened, providing two vaults, climate-controlled storage, and 50,000 sq. ft. of space. Its exterior is marble and granite . [ 2 ] Cecil L. Edwards (1906–1995), [ 3 ] who served as chief clerk of the House in 1963 and as state legislative historian from 1975 to 1993, died on December 22 ...