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A 1977 record captures Jacksonville's gold-rush town pattern
Jacksonville grew from the 1852 gold rush, and a 1977 federal record described a complete inland mining and trade town from the late 1800s.
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Jacksonville gives Jackson County a town-size record of the 1852 gold rush. The Oregon Blue Book lists Jacksonville as an incorporated city and Historic Jacksonville as a county point of interest. Business Oregon also describes Jacksonville as born in the gold rush.
In 1977, a National Park Service nomination looked across the whole district. It called Jacksonville Oregon’s most complete inland mining and trade town from the late 1800s. The record said the old fabric, town scale, and street pattern survived then.
That dated view makes Jacksonville more than one old building. The county identity and gold-rush start frame the town pattern that the 1977 record described at street scale.
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