Image titled “Friendships Say No To Jim Crow”, 1937, photographer unknown. Image courtesy of the Ona Hug Collection / Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center.
Before I had developed an interest in and explored many of Oregon’s “Ghost Towns”, Maxville was quite unknown to me. Located deep in Wallowa County, little is physically left of the old logging town but rich and sometimes disturbing history remains.
One night I managed to catch an episode of OPB’s “The Oregon Experience” entitled, The Logger’s Daughter, a fascinating and very raw documentary about the lives and experiences that shaped Maxville. Hundreds of loggers left Arkansas and Mississippi to live and work there. Many brought
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