Klamath Heritage: Placement of Eagle Perch, 1994
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for Nov. 24, 2019, shows a ponderosa pine tree being lowered into place along the western shore of Lake Ewauna on Nov. 30, 1994.
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Klamath Heritage: Consumers Heating Co.
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for Oct. 6, 2019, shows the Consumers Heating Co. plant at the corner of Klamath Avenue and Fourth Street, across from the courthouse block.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Ankeney Canal
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for Sept. 29, 2019, shows the Ankeny Canal running across the hillside behind the Baldwin Hotel building, just below Pine Street. It was this canal that was blamed for bringing water snakes and frogs into town in large numbers at various times in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: East End
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The easterly end of downtown Klamath Falls is shown in the Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for June 23, 2019.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Keno Bridge
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for June 16, 2019, shows two sets of freight wagons crossing the Klamath River bridge at Keno.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Young People at Crater Lake
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for June 9, 2019, shows a group of young people enjoying a day at Crater Lake National Park.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Link River and Main Street
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for June 2, 2019, shows the Link River as it flows past Main Street in Klamath Falls.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Honoring our Military
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Klamath County Museum's Photo of the Week for May 26, 2019, shows a military color guard leading a parade on Main Street in Klamath Falls in this undated photo. The vintage automobiles, the large number of men in uniform, and the two soldiers depicted in the Wonder Bread advertisement on the billboard, suggest the photo was probably taken not long after the U.S. entered World War II.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Feeding Bears at Crater Lake
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Feeding black bears was a popular activity at Crater Lake National Park – and numerous other parks around the country – in the early 1900s. Our Photo of the Week for May 19, 2019, is an undated image showing a man feeding four bears at Crater Lake. The photo appears to have been taken in the 1920s.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Tunnel Construction at Dorris [VIDEO]
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for May 12, 2019, shows a crew working on the north portal of the tunnel on the Southern Pacific line near Dorris, Calif., in 1909.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Klamath Falls View 1974
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for May 5, 2019, shows a view of Lake Ewauna and Klamath Falls as seen in 1974.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Klamath Junction [VIDEO]
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for April 28, 2019, shows a tourism and visitor bureau operated by the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce near Ashland in the 1920s.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Moving Engine 2579 from Veterans Park [VIDEO]
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for April 21, 2019, shows a crew laying track in preparation for removing Southern Pacific Engine 2579 from Veterans Park in downtown Klamath Falls.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Link River Auto Camp [VIDEO]
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Who remembers what stood on the west bank of the Link River before the Favell Museum was constructed in Klamath Falls? The Klamath County Museum Photo of the Week for April 14, 2019, reveals the answer.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: The History of Garbage
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The Klamath County Museum’s latest video provides background and details on the Klamath County Museum's Photo of the Week for April 7, 2019.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Road Construction
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for March 31, 2019, shows a crew of workmen using horse-drawn scrapers to level a roadbed. Before the advent of machinery powered by engines, scrapers such as these were used for leveling ground in various types of construction projects. Most of the A Canal in Klamath Falls was built the same way.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Klamath's first McDonald's, and first mall.
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for March 24, 2019, is an image published in the Nov. 28, 1971, Herald and News reporting on the opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in Klamath Falls.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Waiting for a train [VIDEO]
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for March 17, 2019, shows passengers waiting for a train at the Southern Pacific passenger depot in Klamath Falls. No date was recorded for this photo. The automobiles seen here suggest a date around 1920.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: Steamboats on Upper Klamath Lake
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for March 10, 2019, shows a group of steamboats at the docks at Shippington.
All three of the steamboats seen here were built in Klamath Falls. Seen at the dock at left is the Eagle, constructed in 1908. Docked at right is the Modoc, which measured 60 feet in length. Its boiler was originally fired by wood, but was later converted to burn oil. The Wasp, seen paddling by the other two boats, was built in 1914. It was slightly smaller, at 50 feet in length.
Read MoreKlamath Heritage: The Gun Store
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Klamath County Museum’s Photo of the Week for March 3, 2019, is an undated image showing the interior of The Gun Store, a fixture in downtown Klamath Falls through most of the 1900s.
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