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Atwood, Kay (Katherine Conlee)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1942 - 2014

Biography

Local historian and author Kay Atwood, who has written extensively about the Southern Oregon region. Atwood’s books include Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon, Mill Creek Journal: Ashland Oregon, 1850-1860, and Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855. Her many other books and articles explore the settlement and development of communities in Southern Oregon, and include National Register nominations, cultural resource inventories, and environmental and organizational histories.

Found in 529 Collections and/or Records:

Determination of Eligibility for Diamond Lake Fishery Management Canal Research, Umpqua National Forest, Douglas County, Oregon, 2003

 File — Box 13: Series MSS025:02 [Barcode: 35138008116458], Folder: 04
Identifier: MSS025:02.47
Scope and Contents The Diamond Lake Fishery Management Canal project is composed of several parts, a forebay, the dam and headgates, and the canal. The canal was built to run adjacent to the exclusive use area previously set aside for a hatchery on Lake Creek. Diamond Lake named by pioneer John Diamond who may have discovered it in 1852 from Diamond Peak where he explored the Cascade Range. John Breckenridge Waldo, an avid outdoorsman, spent his summers in the High Cascades, where he visited both Diamond...
Dates: 2003

Determination of Eligibility for Vincent Creek and Wells Creek Guard Stations, 2001

 File — Box 13: Series MSS025:02 [Barcode: 35138008116458], Folder: 03
Identifier: MSS025:02.46
Scope and Contents The Vincent Creek and Wells Creek Guard Stations constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1934 and located within the Siuslaw National Forest land. In the 1950s these two guard stations were transferred to the BLM in the Coos Bay District. After being removed from the Siuslaw National Forest, the stations were removed from the National Forest inventory and therefore were not on the National Register of Historic Places of CCC. Due to their removal, a different determination...
Dates: 2001

Determination of Eligibility report, 1958

 File — Box 30: Series MSS025:04 [Barcode: 35138008116631], Folder: 01
Identifier: MSS025:04.15
Scope and Contents

Determination of Eligibility for Selected Administrative Buildings and Fire Lookouts on the Klamath National Forest, c. 1917-1958 Volume I: Report

Dates: 1958

Determination of Eligibility report, 1958

 File — Box 30: Series MSS025:04 [Barcode: 35138008116631], Folder: 02
Identifier: MSS025:04.16
Scope and Contents

Determination of Eligibility for Selected Administrative Buildings and Fire Lookouts on the Klamath National Forest, c. 1917-1958 Volume IIA: Inventory Forms, Callahan Work Center to Mt. Hebron Work Center

Dates: 1958

Determination of Eligibility report, 1958

 File — Box 30: Series MSS025:04 [Barcode: 35138008116631], Folder: 03
Identifier: MSS025:04.17
Scope and Contents

Determination of Eligibility for Selected Administrative Buildings and Fire Lookouts on the Klamath National Forest, c. 1917-1958 Volume IIB: Inventory Forms, Oak Knoll Work Center to Yreka Service Center

Dates: 1958

Determination of Eligibility report, 1958

 File — Box 30: Series MSS025:04 [Barcode: 35138008116631], Folder: 04
Identifier: MSS025:04.18
Scope and Contents

Determination of Eligibility for Selected Administrative Buildings and Fire Lookouts on the Klamath National Forest, c. 1917-1958 Volume III: Inventory Forms, Fire Lookouts

Dates: 1958

Determination of Eligibility report, 1958

 File — Box 30: Series MSS025:04 [Barcode: 35138008116631], Folder: 05
Identifier: MSS025:04.19
Scope and Contents

Determination of Eligibility for Selected Administrative Buildings and Fire Lookouts on the Klamath National Forest, c. 1917-1958 Volume IV: Inventory Forms, Oak Knoll Work Center and Sawyers Bar Work Center, Addendum

Dates: 1958

Donald Lewis, June 28, 1979

 File — Box 01: Series MSS004:01 [Barcode: 35138008115559], Folder: 06
Identifier: MSS004:01.06
Scope and Contents

The transcript of Donald Lewis' interview concerns his time at Southern Oregon State College, where he was a professor for the business program. The transcript contains some notes on the Britt estate.

Dates: June 28, 1979

Donald Lewis, June 28, 1979

 File — Box 03: Series MSS004:01 [Barcode: 35138008115575], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS004:01.25
Scope and Contents

The oral history describes Donald Lewis's time at Southern Oregon State College, where he was a professor. Cassette format: tape 1 of 1.

Dates: June 28, 1979

Douglas County cemeteries, 2013

 File — Box 40: Series MSS025:04 [Barcode: 35138008116730], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS025:04.76
Scope and Contents Documentation of a few cemeteries in Douglas county including their condition; Email conversation between Kay Atwood from Paul Ritter regarding the Briggs burial ground, attached are internet searches on various members of the Briggs family, dated January 23rd, 2013; Written documentation of the history of Myrtle Creek; Internet search for John Adams; Internet search for Harriet E. Weaver, Hans Weaver, John Weaver; Grave search results from the internet, members of the Weaver family are...
Dates: 2013

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Archival Object 523
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Subject
Historic buildings 211
research notes 154
History, Local 108
Surveyors 85
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Ashland (Or.) 81
Mines and mineral resources 51
West (U.S.) 45
Business correspondence 43
Oregon, Southern 39
Universities and colleges--Faculty 38
oral histories 38
Chinese Americans 37
Authorship 32
Josephine County (Or.) 31
Cemeteries 28
Maps 26
Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County, Or.) 24
Hazardous geographic environments 22
Sound recordings 22
Oregon, Western 21
Periodicals 19
Forests and forestry 15
Klamath County (Or.) 15
Fire lookouts 13
Grants Pass (Or.) 13
Orchards 12
personal correspondence 11
Biography 9
California, Northern 8
Elementary and Secondary Education 7
Klamath Falls (Or.) 7
personal narratives 7
City councils 6
Interviews 6
Medicine 6
Northwest, Pacific 6
diaries 6
Business records 4
Central Point (Or.) 4
Indians of North America 4
Ranching 4
Sawmills 4
19th century 3
Jacksonville (Or.) 3
Minorities 3
Real property 3
Roads--Design and construction 3
Ships and Shipping 3
Siskiyou National Forest (Or. and Calif.) 3
Crater Lake (Or.) 2
Depressions--1929 2
Eagle Point (Or.) 2
Fire departments 2
Law 2
Prospect (Or.) 2
Railroads 2
Rogue River National Forest (Or. and Calif.) 2
Roseburg (Or.) 2
Takelma Indians 2
Watersheds 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Abstracts of title 1
Agriculture 1
Art 1
Census 1
Colleges and Universities 1
County courts 1
Drama festivals 1
Endemic plants 1
Environmentalism 1
Floods 1
Forest management 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Geology 1
Illinois River Valley (Or.) 1
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific 1
Jackson County (Or.) 1
Oregon 1
Phoenix (Or.) 1
Pioneers 1
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Religion 1
Salem 1
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Tulelake (Calif.) 1
Universities and colleges -- History 1
Video recordings 1
Washington (State) 1
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