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Klamath Falls?
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Klamath
County's
three museums:
Main Museum
1451 Main St.
Klamath
Falls, OR 97601
(541) 883-4208
Baldwin Hotel Museum
31 Main
St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
(541) 883-4207
Fort Klamath Museum
51400 Highway
62
Fort Klamath, OR 97626
(541) 381-2230
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Other museums
in our area
Favell Museum
125 W. Main
Klamath Falls, OR
(541) 882-9996
Collier Logging Museum
Highway 97 N.
Chiloquin, OR
(541) 783-2741
Tulelake-Butte Valley Museum
Fairgrounds
Tulelake, CA
(530) 667-5312
Children's Museum
of
Klamath Falls
711 E. Main St.
Klamath Falls, OR
(541) 885-2995
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Rotorua
Museum
located in Rotorua, New Zealand,
Klamath Falls'
sister city
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Visit these popular online
offerings
of the Klamath County Museum, Klamath Falls, Oregon
The Don Fisher Papers
An 11-volume set of records from
the Modoc Indian War of 1872-73,
including many documents not available online from any other source.
Click here to enter.
Maud Baldwin Photo Gallery
More than 300 photos taken in the Upper Klamath
Basin
during the late 1800s to early 1900s by Maud Baldwin.
Diary of a Modoc War tourist
Pages from the 1873 diary of Leonard Case Jr.,
who traveled from Cleveland, Ohio, to Fort Klamath, Oregon,
to witness the execution of Captain Jack and three other Modoc
Indians.
Click
here to enter.
Klamath County scenes on Panoramio
Click here to take a virtual tour of Klamath County.
Photo above shows alfalfa being cut from a mile-long field at
Algoma,
10 miles north of Klamath Falls.
The Modoc War
The Modoc Indian War of 1872-73 pitted about 55 Modoc warriors
against hundreds of U.S. Army troops. Begin your exploration of this important chapter of
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