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FESTIVALS
JUNE 22�29, 2022
EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS
AROUND EASTERN OREGON
Woodlands & Watersheds Festival is June 24
Event returns to Wallowa
County Fairgrounds
By Lisa Britton
Go! Magazine
ENTERPRISE — Maxville Heritage
Interpretive Center and Wallowa Re-
sources are sponsoring the 18th annual
Woodlands & Watersheds Festival on
Friday, June 24, at the Wallowa County
Fairgrounds, 668 NW First St.
The festival runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
More than 25 local and regional or-
ganizations will be onsite with hands-on
activities. There will also be a free hot dog
lunch for kids, trout fi shing ponds, logging
games, a live blacksmith demonstration,
art activities, a scavenger hunt, fi refi ghter
games, food and live music by Buff alo Kin,
Kelly Bosworth and more Wallowa County
musicians.
A meal of Dutch oven pork or chicken,
plus four diff erent side dishes, will be
served for $10 to support the Maxville
Heritage Interpretive Center, which is
located at 103 N. Main St. in Joseph.
“There’s a lot going on,” said Gwen-
dolyn Trice, executive director of the
interpretive center.
To learn more about the festival, go to
www.wallowaresources.org/woodlands-
watersheds-festival-2022.
ABOUT MAXVILLE
Maxville, located in Wallowa County
about 13 miles north of the town of
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center/Contributed Image
Explore booths, fi nd hands-on activities and listen to music at the 18th annual Woodlands & Watersheds Festival on June 24 in Enterprise.
Wallowa, was once home to about 400
residents. In its heyday, between 1924 and
1933, it was the largest town in the county.
Maxville was a timber town but, unlike
most timber towns, it was home to both
Black loggers and white loggers. Approxi-
mately 40 to 60 Blacks lived and worked
in Maxville.
Economic conditions led to Maxville’s
decline and in 1933 the Bowman-Hicks
Lumber Company closed its operations.
Some of the residents settled in the
nearby town of Wallowa. A few stayed
at Maxville to work in what remained of
the timber industry until a severe winter
storm in the mid 1940s caused most of
the remaining structures to collapse. Af-
ter that Maxville became a ghost town.
Some 60 years later, the children and
grandchildren of the original logging fami-
lies began researching the history of the
town and uncovering the stories of their
ancestors. This eff ort led to the found-
ing of the Maxville Heritage Interpretive
Center.
To learn more, visit www.maxville-
heritage.org.
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