Sheila Chitwood

Feb 15, 2025 | highway58herald.org | Alex Baumhardt |George Custer |Sheila Chitwood |Eric Mortenson

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a bipartisan package of wildfire prevention initiatives, including one that required state experts to create a map showing high wildfire risk areas statewide.

Feb 14, 2025 | highway58herald.org | George Custer |Eric Mortenson |Joshua Berk |Sheila Chitwood

Sometime before Oregon became a state (1859), the local Indians showed David Kitson a place containing “medicine water” and they directed him there. Always an opportunist, he soon got a land grant and later developed a summer resort. He had a hotel for the guests, a cabin for himself, and a bathhouse where the healing waters cured many ills. Kitson’s resort was about eight miles beyond Oakridge in a very remote area.