Kerby

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="040c8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> This was gold rush country in the early days. . . </div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#0066CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Small Town Oregon</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFF99" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>  |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Small Town Oregon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Butte Falls"><U>Butte Falls</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cave Junction"><U>Cave Junction</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eagle Point"><U>Eagle Point</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gold Hill"><U>Gold Hill</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jacksonville"><U>Jacksonville</U></A>   |   <B>Kerby</B>   |   <A HREF="id196.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Phoenix"><U>Phoenix</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id208.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rogue River"><U>Rogue River</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id216.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shady Cove"><U>Shady Cove</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id227.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Talent"><U>Talent</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id894.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Merlin"><U>Merlin</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id919.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wolf Creek"><U>Wolf Creek</U></A></div> <div> Kerby</div> <div>    <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Bookman Old Style" >  This town has had trouble with its name from the beginning.  At first it was called Kerbyville, or Kerbeyville after a rancher who settled the area.  Then in 1856 the county commissioners changed it to Napoleon (your explanation is as good as mine).  The residents did not really like that so they switched back to the old name and shortened it to Kerby. </FONT></div> <div>      Starting in 1857 Kerby was the county seat of Josephine country.  That lasted about thirty years until Grants Pass grew up and claimed the tile. This was gold rush country in the early days of Kerby.  Logging and milling eventually supplanted the gold fever but even that dwindled to nothing by 1960.  </div> <div>      The road through Kerby (199) is the famous Redwood Highway, but the attractions in Kerby are few.  A museum, an old school house, and a few residences are what one sees.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Kerby&state=OR" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Kerby&"><U><B>Area Map</B></U></A><B>  Zoom for street level detail</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c0c80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> If you even wondered how primative a one-room school house could be, now you know.  This is </div> <div> the real thing!  The Grimmett school operated from 1998-1906.  The second roof over it is newer,</div> <div> used to keep the weather off.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c0e80e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The "Kerbyville" museum looks like an interesting place.  Unfortunately as you can see from the sign in the window, it was closed the day I was there.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c1080e00.jpg" border=0 width="640" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The Stith house, built in 1871, serves as an annex to the museum.  I remember going through </div> <div> old houses like this in Jacksonville when I was on a high school field trip and thinking how boring </div> <div> they were.  I might be more interested now. </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=150 BGCOLOR="#0066CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> .</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>