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Klamath
History
Overview

Seven-page
summary of

local history


Where are the
falls in
Klamath Falls?
Click here
for the answer.


List of
organizations in
the Klamath Basin

 


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

 

Klamath History on the Internet

The seventh annual History Fitness Hike, cosponsored by the
Klamath County Museum and the YMCA of Klamath Falls, takes place May 18.

Click here to download a flyer and registration form (pdf).


Explore history on the streets (and trails) of Klamath Falls

Click here for a list of historic attractions in Klamath Falls,
including residential, parkland, commercial and industrial districts.


Visit these popular online offerings
of the Klamath County Museum, Klamath Falls, Oregon

Gilchrist Timber Co. records

Thousands of pages from the files of Gilchrist Timber Co. have been scanned.
Click here to see records related to all aspects of the mill,
timberlands and company-owned town in northern Klamath County.


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 Northwest history.