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The Rogue Valley is a valley region in southwestern Oregon in the United States. Located along the middle Rogue River and its tributaries in Josephine and Jackson counties, the valley forms the cultural and economic heart of Southern Oregon near the California border. The largest communities in the Rogue Valley are Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass.
The number of whites entering the Rogue River watershed greatly increased after 1846, when a party of 15 men led by Jesse Applegate developed a southern alternative to the Oregon Trail; the new trail was used by emigrants headed for the Willamette Valley. [39]
The Table Rocks are one of the most popular hiking locations in the Rogue Valley, with over 45,000 visitors annually. Two trails, Lower Table Rock Trail and Upper Table Rock Trail, were cut across the plateaus' slopes in the early 1980s by the Youth Conservation Corps, Boy Scouts, and the Oregon Department of Forestry. This effort was ...
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Grace's Visit to the Rogue Valley: 1915 Jackson County [3] The Stolen Pie: 1916 Klamath Falls [3] Find Your Man: 1924 Klamath Falls [16] The Ice Flood: 1926 Klamath Falls [3] The General: 1927 Cottage Grove [3] The Reporter: 1927
Location in Oregon relative to other major volcanoes. The major landmark for the Rogue River Valley, [4] Mount McLoughlin reaches an elevation of 9,493 feet (2,893 m). [1] The tallest volcano in between Mount Shasta — located 70 miles (110 km) to the south [5] — and South Sister 120 miles (190 km) to the north, it lies in the Cascade Range, in the southern portion of the U.S. state of ...
The lumber for the first frame houses in Evans Valley and in Woodville was sawed by a sash mill located four miles up Evans Creek. Its single blade was powered by the water wheel of the old mill dam. Steckel owned and ran the mill for many years. In 1912, the town was renamed City of Rogue River.
The Southern Oregon AVA was established in 2005 and was created to include the land of two smaller AVAs: the Rogue Valley AVA and the Umpqua Valley AVA. Southern Oregon AVA was established to allow the two principal winegrowing regions in the southern part of the state to market themselves jointly. This creation of a "super-AVA" is a departure ...