**DUE TO COVID-19 THE MUSEUM IS CURRENTLY CLOSED.**

History

The Eagle Point Museum has a large and notable collection of physical artifacts, photographs and heritage materials directly related to the history of Eagle Point. In fact, the Eagle Point Museum is the second in its collection of artifacts in Jackson County to the Southern Oregon Historical Society. Originally the Long Mountain School House built in 1925, the building was moved to Eagle Point in about 1945. It continued in use as a school, and later joining other schools in the consolidated District 9. In 1978, the community joined together and moved the building to its present location at 202 North Royal Avenue, and opened the Eagle Point Museum in 1978.  Later additions were made to the building in the 1990’s. The City of Eagle Point assumed responsibility for the Eagle Point Museum in 2008.

Tours and Special Events

The museum is available for tours for schools and special events. Please contact the city for more information at 541 826-4212.

Timeline of the History of Eagle Point

The Little Butte Creek area was settled by in the westward migration in 1852, the traditional lands of the Takelma people. Mills, commerce and schools followed soon as the Nichols, Mathews, Ashpole, Brown and other families established homesteads. Orchards were planted in 1900, and by 1907, rail service extended to Butte Falls. The town of Eagle Point was incorporated in 1911, Camp White was established in 1942 and dismantled in 1947. Highway 62 was paved in 1945, and tourism to the Upper Rogue and to Crater Lake increased. An interactive timeline of the history of Eagle Point is coming soon.

Heritage Preservation

The City of Eagle Point is deeply committed to heritage preservation and respectful of its history and responsive to the community. In 2020, the City of Eagle Point, the Eagle Point Museum and key community members worked with Southern Oregon University to digitize important historic materials that tell the early stories of the town.  Journals dating from the settlement period, audiocassettes of oral history interviews from the 1980s and 1990s, architectural surveys, old VHS tapes and written recollections of earlier times were all converted to digital form and published to the web. These primary source materials tell the stories of everyday life in the city of Eagle Point through the years and are an invaluable record for the future. This project was funded in part by the Oregon Heritage Commission, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the State Library of Oregon, and most recently by the Jackson County Cultural Coalition.

Digital Resources (Inactive links are for materials coming soon)

Butte Creek Mill	Camp White Military Museum	Travel Oregon	Eagle Point Museum and its Guardians (video)
Story Map of Eagle Point	Architectural Survey by George Kramer, 2020 and by Carol Barrett, 1990 (pdf)	Camp White and Eagle Point by Carol Barrett (pdf)	Moving the Antelope Covered Bridge (video) and Here Comes the Bridge (video)
Butte Creek Mill, 2006 (video)	Old Eagle Point in Pictures (video)	Carol Barrett’s History of Eagle Point (video) and	History of Eagle Point by Gaynell Krambeal (pdf)
1911 Eagle Point Town Ordinances (pdf)	James Fryer’s Journals, 1867-1912 (pdf) and Notes on the Life of James J. Fryer Based on His Personal Journals, 1867-1912 by J. Warren Straus, 1990 (pdf)	Givin Dairy Farm by Jim Guenther (the old Medford Elk’s campground) (pdf)	Ralph Train: His Life and Times; Builders and War by Ralph Train (video)
Oral Histories (audio): Ed Dahack, Joan (Holmes) Redmond, Don Ashpole, Helen Wolgamott and others
Helen Wolgamott and the Eagle Point Museum (video)	Celebrating the Opening of the Eagle Point Public Library (video)	Schools of the Upper Rogue by Tommie Smith and the Upper Rogue Historical Society (video)	A Brief History of the Eagle Point School System by Clarence Frank Davies (pdf)
Pears and POWs: Camp White 1942-1946 by Madelina Cordia (video)	Unearthing the Past: Archaeology of the Rogue Indian Wars by Mark Tveskov (video)	The Pleasures of Youth: A Crater Lake Journey in 1889 by Alice Mullaly (video)	The Lost Villages of Lost Creek Lake by Dennis Ellingson (video)
Southern Oregon Digital Archives and Southern Oregon University Library and Archives	Rogue Valley Genealogical Society and Library	Southern Oregon Historical Society	Oregon Historical Society
Stories of Southern Oregon on YouTube	Jackson County Library Service	Oregon Digital Newspaper Project	The Oregon Encyclopedia
1911 Eagle Point Sanborn Insurance Fire Map	Jackson County Property Online	SHPO	US Bureau of Land Management Records