Ashland, Oregon

In 1851, gold was discovered at Rich Gulch, a tributary of Jackson Creek, and a tent city grew on its banks, today's Jacksonville.

Settlers arrived in the Ashland area in January 1852, including Robert B.

In 1854, they and another settler, M.

A post office was established in Ashland Mills in 1855 with Helman as postmaster.

These often violent clashes, known ultimately as the Rogue River Wars, continued until 1856.

In the presidential election of 1860, Ashland favored Abraham Lincoln while its neighbors strongly preferred pro-slavery candidates.

In 1871, the Post Office dropped "Mills" from Ashland's name.

Atkinson House (1880), the John McCall House (1883), the Nils Ahlstrom House (1888), the H.

In 1887, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California, were joined by rail at Ashland.

Carter House (1888), and the Colonel William H.

Silsby House (1896).

Some of Ashland's houses built before 1900 are: the Orlando Coolidge House (1875), the Isaac Woolen House (1876), the W.

In 1908, the Women's Civic Improvement Club petitioned for the creation of community space along Ashland Creek, which became Ashland Canyon Park.

Carter House (built in 1909) is in a remarkably good state of preservation.

The structures include the Enders Building (home of the Columbia Hotel), which from 1910 to 1928 contained the largest mercantile establishment between Sacramento and Portland.

Although the park was popular, the mineral spa plans proved too expensive for local taxpayers and were abandoned in 1916.

Until 1926, when most rail service began taking a different route (east through Klamath Falls to avoid the steep grade through the Siskiyou Mountains), Ashland thrived on rail t...

During the Fourth of July celebration in 1935, Angus L.

The band used an octagonal gazebo-style bandstand in Lithia Park until the Butler Memorial Band Shell was built in Lithia Park in 1946.

Ashland's coldest recorded daytime temperature was 15 °F (−9 °C) in December 1972.

Opened in 1986, the dinner theater occupies a former First Baptist Church built in Mission Revival style.

The mean for the warmest summer night between 1991 and 2020 was at a mild 62 °F (17 °C).

== Sister cities == Ashland has two sister cities: Guanajuato, Mexico Sviatohirsk, Ukraine == Notable people == == References == === Works cited === Davidson, Janelle (...

Taylor, George H.; Hannan, Chris (1999).

In 2003, the historic Carnegie portion of the library was restored.

In 2006, budget problems led to the closing in April 2007 of the Ashland Library and 14 others in Jackson County.

The event, which lasted until October 2007, was the largest library closure in U.S.

In 2009, Ashland was the setting for the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.

=== 2010 census === At the 2010 census, there were 20,078 people, 9,409 households, and 4,542 families residing in the city.

In 2011, the festival sold more than 390,000 tickets to its theater productions.

A former student-run radio station with the call letters KSOC and the nickname "Radio Free Ashland" shut down in February 2013 after 14 years of broadcasting.

== In popular culture == The Bakeshop Mystery series by Ellie Alexander, which began with the 2014 publication of Meet Your Baker, is set in Ashland.

As of 2015, it has 49 inpatient beds.

The newspaper also owned the Ashland Daily Tidings, which ran Monday through Saturday until 2019.

== Government == Ashland has a council-manager government since a Charter Amendment was passed by the voters in a Special Election in May 2020, (changing the form of government ...

The highest temperature ever recorded in Ashland was 112 °F (44.4 °C), observed on June 29, 2021, and the record low of −4 °F (−20 °C) occurred in December 1972.

A non-profit news organization, Ashland News, was founded in 2022 by a former Daily Tidings editor and has two reporters.

On January 23, 2023, she announced her resignation effective January 27.

The Daily Tidings domain name was purchased by an unidentified operator in 2024 who began publishing fake articles created by generative AI using the stolen identities of actual...