Category: Sixes

Dement Ranch, Sixes Oregon

In 2009, Persimmon Hill Magazine contacted Rebecca Malamud-Evans of Port Orford Historical Photos to illustrate a story with photographs for an article they were writing on Dement Ranch…

1917 - Port Orford Harbor Surveying Pamphlet

Surveying A Great Opportunity

Cover of a multiple-fold two-color brochure from 1917 from the Port Orford Harbor and Development Corporation. The material was intended to promote stock offerings in the organization. Featured…

Modern Sixes Pacer Mine South Fork (front)

Sixes River Placer Mining

These three undated photographs show “placering” (a.k.a. “placer mining”) up the South Fork of Sixes River. These photos show “modern” placer mining known as hydraulicking which breaks up…