Josephine County Historical Highlights - compiled by Edna May Hill

Josephine County Historical Highlights is a great reference tool.

Whether your interests lie in the early settlers, mining districts, towns, bridges, railroading or industries of early Josephine County, this book is the place to start.

There are many wonderful photographs and explanations of how towns got their names and why many of them went through a series of different names.

In this volume, you'll find the political history of Josephine County as well as short biographies of early pioneers.

There is a memoir contained in this book titled "The Galice Road" by Edith A. Keyte that is very entertaining and you'll wish it went on for much longer!

There are also several railroad tales that are truly delightful!

Josephine County Historical Highlights is the who's who and what's where of early Josephine County.

Josephine County Historical Highlights can be purchased now for just $15.00.

or at the Josephine Historical Society's Bookshop located in the Research Library at 512 K Street, Grants Pass; or at their Online Bookshop.

President's Day - A Photo Tribute

The following is a series of photos of life-size bronze statues of our Presidents.

The are located in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota.  They were created by five South Dakota artists.

George Washington

1789 - 1797

Thomas Jefferson

1801 - 1809

 

James Madison

1809 - 1817

James Monroe

1817 - 1825

John Quincy Adams

1825 - 1829

 Andrew Jackson

1829 - 1837

Martin Van Buren

1837 - 1841

William Henry Harrison

1841 - 1841

John Tyler

1841 - 1845

James Polk

1845 - 1849

Zachary Taylor

1849 - 1850

Millard Fillmore

1850 - 1853

Franklin Pierce

1853 - 1857

James Buchanan

1857 - 1861

Abraham Lincoln

1861 - 1865

Andrew Johnson

1865 - 1869

Hyrum Ulysses Grant

1869 - 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes

1877 -1881

James Garfield

1881 - 1881

Chester Arthur

1881 - 1885

 

Grover Cleveland

1885 - 1889

Benjamin Harrison

1889 - 1893

 

Grover Cleveland

1893 - 1897

 

William McKinley

1897 - 1901

 Theodore Roosevelt

1901 - 1909

William Taft

1909 - 1913

Warren G. Harding

1921 - 1923

Calvin Coolidge

1923 - 1929

Herbert Hoover

1929 - 1933

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1933 - 1945

Harry S. Truman

1945 - 1953

Dwight David Eisenhower

1953 - 1961

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

1961 - 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963 - 1969

Richard Millhouse Nixon

1969 - 1974

Ronald Reagan

1981 - 1989

George Herbert Walker Bush

1989 - 1993

William Jefferson Clinton

1993 - 2001

George W. Bush

2001 - 2009

I apologize to:

John Adams
1797 - 1801

Woodrow Wilson
1913 - 1921

Gerald Ford
1974 - 1977

Jimmy Carter
1977 - 1981

 for missing their statues.


If you find yourself in South Dakota, I highly recommend a visit to the "City of Presidents" in downtown Rapid City.

Happy Birthday Grants Pass, Oregon!

Grants Pass was incorporated 121 years ago on February 18, 1891!

Looking southward on 6th Street.

Here are a few other notables that happened on this date:

photo courtesy of:  Tedder 

 This is a photo of Clatskanie, Oregon, which was also incorporated on February 18, 1891.

 George Washington (Zip) Zabel, a relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs was born on this date.

Henry Hastings Sibley, Union Army officer and the first governor of Minnesota died on this date.

On this date, William H. Appleton was awarded the Congressional medal of honor for extraordinary heroism while serving with Company H, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry on this date.  The Civil War had been over for 26 years!

The Arizona cities of Phoenix and Yuma flooded on this date.