In 1883, Squire Stanford Aiken arrived in Deskins, Oregon, seeking a town with a good school and good roads. Although he found neither, he set out to create what was lacking. And he renamed the town Prospect.Traveling through Prospect, people often stopped overnight, staying with the Boothby family. The Boothbys weren’t running a hotel; they simply had a large house and a good cook. Clearly a hotel was needed, and so in 1893 the Boothbys built a roadhouse hotel with 10 rooms [...]
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