Laura Ahearn
Laura B. Ahearn moved to the Applegate Valley in 2017 after a career in environmental law and seventeen years traveling the world in a sailboat. She is President of McKee Bridge Historical Society, researcher/writer for the Society's Facebook page, curator of the Virtual Museum at www.mckeebridge.org, a volunteer with the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS), a presenter in the Windows In Time program hosted by SOHS and Jackson County Library Services, and frequent author for local newsmagazines.
Author's Entries
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Buncom
Buncom (also Bunkum, Buncombe or Buncomville) is situated at the confluence of Sterling Creek and the Little Applegate River in southwest Jackson County, Oregon. What started as a gold mining camp in the 1850s became a hub for surrounding ranches, although it was never a platted or incorporated town. Today …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Sterlingville
Sterlingville was a mining boomtown at the headwaters of Sterling Creek, about seven miles south of what is now Jacksonville, Oregon. The town was named for James Sterling, who left Illinois in his mid-twenties with his mother and two younger siblings to cross the plains to Oregon Territory in 1853. …
Oregon Encyclopedia
