Margueritte Watson married John Black in 1932 and they lived on Forest Creek Road in the Applegate, John's family ranch. Margueritte photographed and kept a diary throughout her adult life and today, her daughter, Annice Olena Black captures the heart and soul of another time by matching her mother's diary to her photographs of farming, logging, mining and living on the lookout tower out in the Applegate.
Stories of mills, mines, forests, and fields: Southern Oregon’s landscape, economy, and demographics have changed significantly since the donation land claims of the mid-1800s. Thanks to grants from the Oregon Heritage Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Southern Oregon University has been collecting the oral histories and photographs of heritage families and publishing these to the
Southern Oregon Digital Archives.
