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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1956)
I Brookings-Harbor Pilot — Brookings, Oregon Page Eight Thursday, July 26, 1956 Motorlog Leads to Jacksonville. Storehouse of Pioneer Memories Hi-Way Market takes great pleasure in an nouncing the opening of its new huge park ing lot -- in rear of store. ★ Turn off highway at Mill Beach Road dir Old Courthouse In Mining Town Used as Museum ectly across from Texaco station. ★ Entrance and Exit in rear of Building makes C : . • ■ ' - tloTnh* / ° " ow'n< '• • «•«<!•«>••- it very convenient for Shoppers -- Another • pon.o,ed Jo|„tly b Th. Or? Bn<1 th/ Ore<o„ g?.?.’ Reason why it Pays to Shop at Hi-Way Mkt. M o to r HI-WAY MKT Stockton Hi West TOM ATOES PEAS 216 Tin 303 Tin 5 for $1 8 for $1 Sure Jell Yacht Club or SWEET PICKLES MCP PECTIN 16 Gal. Jar 2 for 25c 99c Wilsons Puritan CHOPPED BEEF STRAWBERRY JAM 12 oz. Tin 20 oz. Jar 3 for $1 39c GERBERS BABY FOOD Strained Junior $ 1 Doz. 1 0 c ea. Snows 7 oz. Tin MINCED CLAMS 4 for $ 1 3 • Nalley Durkees POTATO CHIPS MAYONNAISE 7 oz. - Reg. 39c Large Jar 3 9 c ; ____ 29c 2 lb. Tin - ONLY MJB $ 1 .8 9 COFFEE Field Grown - No. 1 CELERY ’* * * BY GW LADl'S BOWEN Tn V 7 E‘” '0r' Th<Or,™ ,‘ n In Jacksonville, Oregon has a potential rival for Nevada^ i " ? ed tourist fr a c t io n , V ir ginia City. For the tree-shaded . ' « « Í X ' J ' b " , ' ' ' ’, * * * ,n ,hta streets of this old southern Or- •g°n mining town, a few miles y p oneer cameraman Peter B ritt, still stands. tTe s°f nMedfOrd- are lined with museum, open week days from she,,s of Pioneer buildings J a. m. to 5 p. m. and from 2 forAT h '' V ° Und ° n a ™ to rlo g to 5 p. m. on Sundays. ror 1 he Oregonian and the O r * tinnr.°St r<?,Cent Of ,ts acquisi lm n n T ate M° tOr ass°clation. tions are furnishings from the among many other attractions home of the late Peter B ritt there are graceful old churches early Swiss pioneer who settled one of them the first Protestant m Jackson In 1852 and became church built west of the Rocky the first photographer In south mountains. ern Oregon. ’The old United States hotel By fa r the most Interesting where President Rutherford B* part of this collection is the as Hayes was an overnight guest sortment of early cameras B ritt on his stage coach trip through uaed; on,y In his portrait the Rogue River valley, was in but also for his scenic in i e? day the finest to be studio, work. found in a wide area. v ^ arlj a11 of bls cameras are a/ e ° ther pub,,c build- Voltlanders, ranging in size ings. and lovely old homes hrnm ¿ He 4 u5 b° X cemera he dat,"K back to brought w ith him from Swit- the 1850s. when Jacksonville in r 3d d t0 . latGr models, which was overcoming Its growing include a huge 11x14 Job that " h i t « m otoring car paused fnd°K 8S ear,y mln,nc town, more resembles a small cannon wnid majesty of redwoods and becoming a well established than a camera. b ong Sm ith riv e r to coast« community. a There is even a stereo cam- ing county seat of Jackson 2™, h \ Iarge vievvin8 box, Old Home» Predominate ano hundreds and hundreds of county, 289 miles south of Port- Some, of these old homes are P ates that may take years to | land on U. S. highway 99. A pleasant round trip from nart T * ’ bUt f° r the m0St classify and identify. part Jacksonville today is just As time permits, Miss Mary Portland that can comfortably another small community living Hanley, curator of the Jackson be made In a long week end among ghost buildings. ville museum, plans to recon- would be down 99 to Medford, One of the old buildings that' I J K ,Peter B ritta P°rtra it then across to Jacksonville and is playing a new role in present studio In one of the museum on through the Applegate val- h aCi S° nvUle ,s the stately rooms, and have It set up with ley to join U. S. highway 199 red brick courthouse This was cameras, posing chairs and va south to Crescent City. C al. tb.udt ,n 1J84. on the site of nous backdrops. and return north on scenic B ritt is reported to have been L. 5. 101 to Portland. A sug « hi ? °.a wooden courthouse ere°tcd in the the first photographer to make gested bypass over an old high- IJpdd 50s and burned in the a picture of Crater lake, first day north of Crescent City through the Smith River cut 1853- He lite ra lly off to Brookings w ill save a had to build the mad to the It served as the court of Jus- few miles. KUHrUni 1’ the ,ate ’20s whpn lake In the early ’70s. I t was Another suggested stopover Medford succeeded Jacksonville i i ^ f Unth ?874 that he made h,s nrst photograph of the lake. on L. S. 199 to the coast is the as the county seat. Oregon Caves, 20 miles east of to the story, he spent Cave Junction. *n h i 95?’u historical material nearly a week at the rim w ait which had been collected by the The road from Medford to Southern Oregon Historical so- ing for good weather and was Crater Lake, some 81 miles. 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