Documents

• Talent History
  • Talent Public Library
  • Early History of Talent Library by Hulda Sommer, 1989
  • Early Businesses and Industries of Talent by Carol Malcolm with Wilda Schmelzer, 1975/80
  • Early History of the Talent School by Elton Petri, 1973
  • City of Talent Historic Background, 1994
  • Talent Comprehensive Plan: The History of Talent
    
  • National Register of Historic Places Registration for old Talent Elementary School (1899) prepared by George Kramer, 2011
    
  • The Mayors of Talent, 1910 to present
    
  • History of Talent Irrigation District
    
  • The Southern Oregon Branch Experiment Station ... Its Development, Program, and Accomplishments, 1911 - 1962
    
  • Ellis Beeson: Talent's Honored Senior Citizen 1981
• Talent's Newspapers
  • A history of Talent's local newspapers, 1892 to present, by James Gray
  • 120 Years Ago in the TALENT NEWS
  • Talent News Flashes, 1934 - 1989
  • The FLASH - the official newsletter of the City of Talent
• Oregon History
  • A Plea for the Indians by John Beeson, 1857
  • Council of Table Rock, 1853
  • The Effect of White Immigration from Walling, 1884
  • General Sheridan's Memoirs, 1888: encounters with Indians and an Indian-hunting mob from Jacksonville in 1854
  • Indian Wars of Southern Oregon by Colvig, 1902
  • The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980 by Schwartz, 1997
  • Oregon History: Indian Wars from Blue Book of Oregon State Archives
  • History of Southern Oregon (chaps. 1-11) by Walling, 1884
  • History of Southern Oregon (chaps. 12-19) by Walling, 1884
  • Acquistion of Oregon, vol 1 ( chaps. 1-5, chap. 6, chap. 7 ) by Marshall, 1911
  • Acquistion of Oregon, vol 2 ( chaps. 1-9, ) by Marshall, 1911
  • History of Oregon: A Teacher's Outline for Use in the Eighth Grade. 1922.
  • Ben Truwe's very extensive collection of Southern Oregon History.
  • As Long as the World Goes On: The Land and People of Southwestern Oregon. The Oregon History Project.

Photos & Images

• Talent High Champion Basketball Team 1918/19
• In 1880 neither Talent nor Medford were on the Map
• Jackson County city populations 1850-1970
• Jacksonville in 1855

Illustrations from A. G. Walling's History of Southern Oregon, 1884.

Portraits.

Applegate, Hon. Lindsay, 8
Lane, Gen. Joseph, frontis-piece.
Plymale, W. J., 68

Views.

Alford, Albert, 20 [Talent]
Eagle Mills, 116 [Ashland]
Grubb, John L., 156 [Ashland]
Murphy, John, 252 [Ashland]
Payne, C. T., 300 [Phoenix]
Walker, J. P., 420 [Ashland]