N.C. and Rebecca Burns House / Lovelace House

This home was built for N.C. and Rebecca Burns in 1894. It changed hands and was owned by several others including Frank Lovelace. Lovelace was a railroad man from Missouri and moved in to this house with his wife and ...

IOOF Hall – Coburg

The original Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall was built 1886, and housed the Grange, Free Masons, IOOF, the Rebecca, and Good Templars, which held their meetings upstairs, and the ground floor was used for all church services. When the ...

Grange Hall-Coburg

Organized March 11, 1915, the first Grange building was built in 1939 after the original IOOF Hall, which housed the Grange, burned down in 1937. This was the site of the original IOOF Hall. The IOOF and the Rebecca held ...

Smith House – Coburg

Built in 1870 and also known as the Depot House, this Gothic structure was once the site of the town’s Pony Express (c.1871), a stagecoach stop, and later the railroad depot (c.1882).

Coburg Oregon

Coburg began in 1847, when John Diamond and Jacob Spores settled near the site of a Kalapooya Indian village on the McKenzie River. The Donation Land Act drew early pioneers to farm the fertile soil. It was the Willamette of ...

Kalispel Buffalo (q̓ʷyq̓ʷay)

Well-worn paths traversed the Pend Oreille River Valley long before the first explorers passed through it.  The trails provided the Kalispel people (Qlispélixʷ) with important links to seasonal food sources, community relations, and trade.

The trail to the buffalo, a ...

Drakesbad Guest Ranch

In June of 1938, after removing the original lodge built by Edward Drake in 1890 and crushed in the winter snows of 1937-38, the Siffords began the construction of a replacement building. Roy Sifford, who was determined to lose as ...

Drakesbad

The first person known to have settled in the valley that was later to become Drakesbad was Edward R. Drake (1830-1904). It is possible that Drake may have first arrived in the Drakesbad area as early as 1875. Records show ...

Bald Eagles

Though no historical information exists on Bald Eagle population size in California, it is widely thought that this species formerly occupied a widespread range and was quite abundant throughout the western states. After World War II, ...

Bumpass Hell

Hydrothermal (hot water) features at Lassen Volcanic National Park fascinate visitors to this region of northeastern California. Boiling mudpots, steaming ground, roaring fumaroles, and sulfurous gases are linked to active volcanism and are all reminders of ...