Built 104 years ago, the Dollarhide Bridge on the Old Siskiyou Highway was one of the first two bridges constructed in 1914 by the new Oregon Department of Transportation. The bridge is named after the Dollarhide family that moved to the Rogue Valley in 1869. After farming near Jacksonville, they purchased timberland and built a sawmill south of Ashland in the 1880s.At first Jesse Dollarhide and his adult sons used Lindsay Applegate’s toll road to reach their sawmill, [...]
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