Phoenix Historical Society, Oregon

03/24/2026

Board member and volunteer Ken Kantor just takes the cake! He and and friend rebuilt the wheelchair ramp into the museum. Thank you so much!

12/26/2025

Happy New Year from the Phoenix Historical Society Museum!

12/11/2025

Thank you to all who joined us for the holiday potluck and membership meeting! Great food! Lots of fun to be with everyone and catch up. We'll see you next time!

11/25/2025

Closed this week for the holidays. Enjoy yours! (unless you are a turkey). Open again Thurs-Fri-Sat, December 4, 5, 6th.

03/15/2025

Margaret Croly has released the latest Gasburg Gazette -- the winter 2025 issue -- for your reading pleasure. Lots of wonderful news from the Phoenix Historical Society. Thanks Margaret!

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The Gasburg Gazette is the quarterly newsletter of the Phoenix Historical Society Museum in Phoenix, Oregon. Margaret Bolz Croly, editor. Gasburg Gazette has...

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day!

12/30/2024

If you have donated to local heritage and cultural organizations, like JPR or the Phoenix Historical Society, you can match your give with a contribution to the Oregon Cultural Trust and get an Oregon tax credit. Thank you for your support of heritage and culture!

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12/29/2024

Happy holidays from the Phoenix Historical Society, our museum and wonderful volunteers and members!

11/16/2024

Here's photos from the dedication of the new arch at the Phoenix Pioneer Cemetery

11/16/2024

Celebrating 150 years at the Phoenix Pioneer Cemetery - Phoenix, Oregon with a new entryway arch fabricated by Luke Satern . What a great day!

10/10/2024

For the historians out there: Talent Historical Society, Phoenix Historical Society, Oregon, Applegater Newsmagazine, Peter Finkle, George Kramer, Lake Creek Historical Society, McKee Bridge Historical Society, Big Butte Historical Society, Rogue Valley Genealogical Society and others with the Jackson County Heritage Association, Oregon, here's great news from the State Library of Oregon

Contact: lke Bruton Program Manager
Government Information and Library Services
[email protected], 971-375-3509

October 10 , 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Salem, Ore - The State Library of Oregon supports government transparency and civic education by ensuring consistent
and coordinated permanent public access to information published by Oregon state government.

Meaning members of the public can access the reports state agencies create. In addition to the stacks of paper reports
and publications, the State Library has also been building an online collection of these materials. While some are digitized
copies of historic materials, others are the born-digital version of our modern era. Recently, the State Library migrated its
digital collections to a brand-new platform. More than 160,000 Oregon state government publications are now available,
in support of our mission to cultivate, preserve, and deliver library and information services to the people of Oregon.

We invite all to explore the site by visiting https://digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/

This new platform is fully text searchable, making it easier to find the people or places mentioned within state publications.
Additional improvements include linked information across collections and items and improved search options. There are
also new storytelling capabilities that will highlight Oregon's people, places, and events, and the activities of Oregon
state government.

In the near future, more components of the State Library's collection will be available on this new platform, including over
8,000 historic photographs and thousands of federal government publications related to Oregon and other publications
concerning the state of Oregon and its culture. Even the contents of the State Library's card catalogue, the Oregon Index,
will be available soon. Consisting of nearly a million index cards, the Oregon Index cross-references decades of Oregon
newspaper and magazine articles and information buried in books about Oregon. These citations are an invaluable research tool.

To learn more about the digital collections at the State Library of Oregon, please visit https://digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/
or contact Elke Bruton, Program Manager for Government Services, at [email protected] or 971-375-3509.