Author Archives: Lake Creek Historical Society

Title: The History of Lake Creek: Struggles and Perseverance of the Early Settlers. The Lake Creek Historical Society has a booklet for sale. $10.00. If ordered by mail please enclose $3.00 for postage. Sample of Chapters in booklet: Lake Creek get its name, First settlers come to Lake Creek, Ranch life in Lake Creek, The Little…

  Florence (Grandma on right) and sister Maud c. 1900. The Lake Creek Thumberg homestead that Frederick Thumberg built c 1890 on the Salt Creek Road property. Photo by Victor Thumberg c. 1950   Lake Creek Roots – by Garry Wilson “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind…

TALES OF THE SOUTH FORK Water Should Run Downhill This is a first of three stories that Paul Wendt wrote in 1991 of his experiences in Lake Creek. They bought Farlows place on South Fork Little Butte. Susan Shoemaker donated these stories that her father wrote to the LCHS. Thank you Susan. Copied from the…

POST CARDS FOR SALE The Lake Creek Historical Society has been receiving request that we make up some post cards of the Lake Creek area. This is also a fundraiser for the Lake Creek Historical Society. You will find at the Lake Creek General Store and the Lake Creek Historical Society, 4 versions of cards: Lost Creek Covered Bridge,…

Harriet and Victor Gardener Believe written in 1979 By Victor E. Gardener Before beginning to tell of this adventure which took place sixty-three years ago I should give a short biography of three people principally involved. The youngest, Everett Dahack, was born circa 1900. I don’t know much about Everett. I was well acquainted…

PROPER RESTING PLACE By Jenny Randall-Cook, Seattle, WA I started my journey to find my Randles family in my early 20’s when I had moved from Northern Idaho to Seattle, WA. In those days, as many before me have done, I logged many hours looking at reels of film at the National Archives Records Administration. …

  RVGS Cemetery Committee Lee and Dirk Chuck, Carl & Roger   Written by Carl Shauger   On Friday, June 1, 2012, I had the privilege to tag along with Chuck Eccleston and Roger Roberts to a cemetery site in the Lake Creek area of Jackson County with their purpose of surveying a cemetery…

I should explain who I am and how I got to know and love my Aunt Allie ‘Tyrrell’ Farlow and the Lake Creek of the early forties even though I spent less than a year in her home. World War Two was raging across Europe and our nation was swept into the battle. The area…

The ‘Dead Indian Soda Springs’ are an assortment of small mineral springs that feed into Dead Indian Creek near Lake Creek, OR. The springs are rich in sodium carbonate, iron, magnesium, and sodium hydroxide. The Dead Indian Soda Springs were discovered by European settlers around 1871, when a man named John Tyrrell stopped for a…

Glenn Jackson (1902-1980) Picture Glenn Jackson on his ranch (Cascade Ranches) in Lake Creek. Recognized as one of Oregon’s most influential figures of the twentieth century, Glenn Jackson left his mark through public service and corporate leadership. He was born in Albany, Oregon, on April 27, 1902, to W. L. Jackson, copublisher of the…

  LAKE CREEK CEMETERY aka Peck Family Cemetery aka South Fork Cemetery This picture shows how over grown it was the next picture will show what it looked like after May 12, 2012 when 8 men and one woman spent Saturday morning cleaning it up. In this cemetery it is believed that there are 16…

Victor Gardener (Vittore E. Giardinieri) (1909-2006) Printed with permission from Christopher Dungey (2012) (www.oregonencyclopedia.org) Victor Gardener (Vittore E. Giardinieri) was a master instrument maker who had a tremendous impact on players, teachers, and luthiers, including one of his most gifted apprentices, Michael Klein. To honor Victor Gardener in 2000,Klein established the Giardinieri Violin Making…

Rader-Stanley Ranch “Eagle Point Ranching Tradition” By Susan ‘Stanley’ Kendle Most people have no idea where Rader Hills are located and the significance they might hold. If you follow the signs on Hwy 140 to the VA Cemetery, you will first turn north on Riley Road located southeast of Eagle Point. As you travel, passing…

My Memories of Mom and Dad! By Bonnie ‘Millard’ Nutter   I have so many fond memories of my Mom and Dad. (Arlin and Garrel Millard. Dad was the grocery shopper in the family. He loved to shop for bargains. I loved to go with him. We would go to the Big Y. I…

By Kenny Millard (2006) Provided by:Sister Hazel ‘Millard’ Siebrecht Barn picture taken 2009 for LCHS 2010 calendar. Our two oldest grandsons are now driving and it scares the “@#! %*%#@” out of me, because I was such a calm and collected driver, I wish they would drive more like I did. We drove up to…

Barbara Fry Remembers – Lake Creek School I went to school when I was 4 years old. The teachers, bless their hearts, didn’t care if these little ones tagged along to school and so I went to school with my sister, Eva. When I started first grade, Jimmy Damon and I were the only two…

LAKE CREEK POSTOFFICE In the beginning the post office in Lake Creek the town was two words. In 1894 for some reason it was changed to one word Lakecreek. Brian Zablochy in 2007 was doing research for his collage paper and sent a letter to the state to have it changed back to two words. So it is now two…

Lake Creek Store and Post office There was an article in the Upper Rogue Independent on November 17, 1981, written by Helen Barrow. With her permission it was reprinted in the Spring and Winter 1997 Lake Creek Letter (two issues). I am using only a few excerpts from the article here, as it is way too…

Lake Creek School 1914 Photo donated by:Mary Ann ‘Gardener” Owen. Left to Right: Verne Meyer, George Klingle, Mary Cole, Jimmie McCallister, Beatrice Gardener, Simon McCallister, (in front) Norma Klingle, Henry Meyer, Roy Burleson, Blanche Burleson, Frank Klingle, Emmett Klingle, Loren Culbertson, Ben Gardener, Elizabeth Edler , Rosalia Gardener, Viola McCallister and teacher Mr. Good.

Mystery Tablecloth A tablecloth found in a local home provided an intriguing mystery. Thanks for some good detective work the mystery of the tablecloth ant its more then 255 signatures has been pretty well solved. One of the people who did the most research-and had the most success finding answers-was Maxine ‘Walch’ Peile, descendant of…

Recipes and Remembrances “ A Collection of recipes from present and former Community Members and Friends.” Besides wonderful recipes there are pictures of homestead houses that are still standing, being lived in and taken great care of. Since we no long receive tax dollars to keep the doors open and keep the building in good…

The Lake Creek Rural Fire Department started its humble beginnings with just a phone tree to alert volunteers of fires in the area. Lake Creek Store owners, Ben and Betty Humphrey, were the initial phone contact that set in motion the phone tree. Prior to 1982, when the LCRFD officially became a f…

Lake Creek Grange The Grange is some what active. But the membership has declined over the years. This building was also used as a polling place until all voting ballots are now done by mail.

Lake Creek Grange The Lake Creek Grange was chartered on April 11,1928, with forty-four members. The first Grange master was Floyd Charley. The first secretary was Julia Sidley. In 1929 a contractor gave an estimate of $1,200.00 to the building committee. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Meyer donated the Gr…

Lost Creek School 1933-34. Back row: Delbert Culbertson, Don Grigsby,Johnny & Tom Short, Comer Fox, Mark Hoefft, Johnny and Lloyd Walch. Front row: Joan Nussbaum, Veneta Fox, Edith Hoefft, Bill Nussbaum, Jewel Abbott, Mary Nussbaum, Margaret Walch, Evelyn Abbott, Lucille Vieaux(View), Carl and J…

Lake Creek Learning Center Located: Lake Creek Loop Road. Built near where the Lake Creek School was located in the early 1900’s. Article from supplement of Upper Rogue Independent on February 2000. Helen Barrow rings the bell to official open the Lake Creek Learning Center. Helen Barrow was …

Butte Creek School 1930-31 Teacher Ellyn Charley (Mrs. Leland Charley) Eldred Charley, Isabelle Henry, Johnson kids, Charles Stanley, Merton Bradshaw, Irene (?), Gwen and Janet Charley.

Lost Creek School might have been taken before 1887. The tallest boy on right is Frank Farlow and boy right in front of him is Tom Farlow. Does anyone know the date of this picture and the names of the students. This picture was provided by Henry I. Pech (2011).

In 1912, 21 students posed for a school photo. Standing from left are Emmit Klingle, Audley Meyer, Henry Meyer, and Celia McCallister, Vernon Meyer, Simon McCallister, Rosella Gardener, Cecil Culbertson, Mabel Culbertson, Bennet Gardener and Jm McCallister. In the second row, from the left are Ver…

Lake Creek School no date for when this picture was taken or the names of the students. The teacher was Alma Gould per information from the SOHS.

This school sat on the hill overlooking the town of Lake creek. the school was relocated farther north after the road was rerouted up on the ‘desert’, north of where the scaling station now sits on Oregon 140. This article was in the Lake Creek Letter of Winter 1999 also school articl…

My Mother: Amy ‘Davis’ Grissom Written by: Don Grissom This is the life of Amy Grissom as I remember it. Her parents moved from Missouri in 1886 and homesteaded near the head of Tyler Creek on the Greenspring Mountain. Amy was born in 1890. She had several brothers and sisters. Amy got a teacher’s c…

The LCHS has put out a newsletter called: The Lake Creek Letter since 1992 and we sell them for .50 cents each or 11 for $5.00. There will also be a postage charge if mailed. If your interested in a certain topic please call or email us and we will see if that topic was written…

Lost Creek School This picture was taken in 1926 of Guinevere.L. Kerns who was the teacher at the time. She was 17 years of age. Her son Colin McCoy lives in the Lake Creek area at the present time, with his wife Christine Reising. This school was consolidated with the Eagle Point School district…

This is the third and last building for the Lost Creek School, Dist#42.near Lake Creek, OR. Anyone know names of teacher and students?-

This is the second building of the Lost Creek School Dist. #42. This picture was taken 1908. Left to Right back row: Teacher-Sadie Evans, Marie Newstrom, Hazel Randles, Blanche Miller, Grace Miller, Margaret Tyrrell, Lee Farlow, Josh Geer?, and Herman Newstrom Left to Right front row: Ty Ragsdale,…

The first school building was constructed in 1880, the year the district was formed to provide education for the children living in the basin of the South Fork of Little Butte Creek. The lumber for desks and finishing was packed in by burros. The second school building was built in the early 1900…

Welcome sign as you enter Lake Creek. Provided by B-K Ranch. Come visit our beautiful rural area. This sign is setting on what was once Vern Meyer’s property. As you can see by the sign there is a beautiful General Store, which includes an ice cream parlor. Across the street is the LCHS an…

Help keep the grounds clean during the winter months and in the summer need people to keep the flower gardens clean of weeds and plant flowers. Please contact office if you’re interested in helping. 541-826-1513

Need the gutters cleaned and other projects. Please contact office if you’re interested in helping. 541-826-1513