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Ashland Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States, near Interstate 5 and the California border, and located in the south end of
the Rogue Valley. It was named after Ashland County, Ohio, point of origin of Abel Helman and other founders, and secondarily for Ashland, Kentucky, where other founders had family connections. It officially
became a town with the name Ashland Mills in 1855. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 19,522. The 2007 estimate
is 21,630 residents. It
is the home of Southern Oregon
University and the internationally renowned
Oregon Shakespeare
Festival. In December 1887,
Portland, Oregon and San Francisco,
California were joined by rail at Ashland.
Until 1926, when most rail service began taking a different route (east through
Klamath Falls to avoid the steep grade through the Siskiyou Mountains) Ashland thrived on rail trade. This was especially the case
with orchard products, such as the famous Ashland peach, which won top honors at
the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The oldest working
telephone booth in Oregon, made of wood with a tin ceiling, is located in
downtown Ashland in the Columbia Hotel. The Columbia Hotel, built in 1910 as
part of the Enders Building, is the oldest hotel in Ashland and continues to
flourish today. The building was originally home of the largest mercantile
establishment between Sacramento, CA and Portland, OR in the period 1910 to
1928. During the Fourth of July celebration in 1935, Angus L. Bowmer arranged the first
performances of what would become the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival. The festival grew during the
1900s, and has become an award-winning and internationally-known regional
theater company. The city is 350 miles
(560 km) north of San Francisco,
California and 285 miles (459 km) south
of Portland, Oregon, in an area once proposed to become the State of Jefferson. It is 90 miles (145 km) from Crater Lake National
Park and Oregon Caves National
Monument. Ashland is well-known for
its annual Oregon Shakespeare
Festival (OSF), which brings thousands of
visitors to the city every year. The festival has grown from a summer outdoor
festival in the 1930s to a season which stretches from February to October,
incorporating Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean plays in repertory at three
theaters. OSF sells more tickets to more performances of more plays than any
other theater in the country. In a typical year, OSF sells more than 350,000
tickets and attracts about 100,000 tourists. The National Fish and Wildlife
Forensics Laboratory, located in Ashland, is
the world's only crime lab dedicated to wildlife, and serves law enforcement
both within and outside the United States. Lithia Park is a 100 acre (0.4 km²) park extending from the center
of town ("The Plaza") up Ashland Creek to the foothills of Mount Ashland. It includes two ponds, a Japanese garden, tennis courts, two public greens, a bandshell (outdoor stage) and miles of hiking trails. The name Lithia comes from the natural mineral water in Ashland,
Lithia water.
Lithia water is famous
for its strong mineral taste and slight effervescence, and the Lithia water
fountains found on the town plaza are frequently tasted by unsuspecting tourists
(often at the behest of residents or frequent visitors who use the fountains as
a cheap, humorous Ashland initiation rite).
Lithia water can be sampled from a
fountain near the bandshell in Lithia Park as
well. Income & Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $36,381 (it
was $32,670 in 2000)
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