Linkville residents endured disastrous winter of 1889-90

Residents of the tiny town of Linkville, Oregon, suffered a double hardship in the winter of 1889/90. First a disastrous fire wiped out the business district of the community that would later be renamed Klamath Falls.A few weeks later, that summer’s crop-shriveling drought yielded to one of the harshest winters ever to be seen in the Klamath Basin. Judge Alfred Leavitt, recalling that memorable winter some 40 years later in an article for the Evening Herald newspaper, [...]