By Kenny Millard (2006) Provided by:Sister Hazel ‘Millard’ Siebrecht Barn picture taken 2009 for LCHS 2010 calendar. Our two oldest grandsons are now driving and it scares the “@#! %*%#@” out of me, because I was such a calm and collected driver, I wish they would drive more like I did. We drove up to…
Post Office 1886-1959
March 28, 2012 by
LAKE CREEK POSTOFFICE In the beginning the post office in Lake Creek the town was two words. In 1894 for some reason it was changed to one word Lakecreek. Brian Zablochy in 2007 was doing research for his collage paper and sent a letter to the state to have it changed back to two words. So it is now two…
Lake Creek Store and Post Office
March 28, 2012 by
Lake Creek Store and Post office There was an article in the Upper Rogue Independent on November 17, 1981, written by Helen Barrow. With her permission it was reprinted in the Spring and Winter 1997 Lake Creek Letter (two issues). I am using only a few excerpts from the article here, as it is way too…
Lake Creek Fire Department
February 20, 2012 by
The Lake Creek Rural Fire Department started its humble beginnings with just a phone tree to alert volunteers of fires in the area. Lake Creek Store owners, Ben and Betty Humphrey, were the initial phone contact that set in motion the phone tree. Prior to 1982, when the LCRFD officially became a fire district in…
Lake Creek Grange 2009
February 20, 2012 by
Lake Creek Grange The Grange is some what active. But the membership has declined over the years. This building was also used as a polling place until all voting ballots are now done by mail.
Lake Creek Grange
February 20, 2012 by
Lake Creek Grange The Lake Creek Grange was chartered on April 11,1928, with forty-four members. The first Grange master was Floyd Charley. The first secretary was Julia Sidley. In 1929 a contractor gave an estimate of $1,200.00 to the building committee. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Meyer donated the Grange site. The whole community donated labor. …
Lake Creek Learning Center
February 16, 2012 by
Lake Creek Learning Center Located: Lake Creek Loop Road. Built near where the Lake Creek School was located in the early 1900’s. Article from supplement of Upper Rogue Independent on February 2000. Helen Barrow rings the bell to official open the Lake Creek Learning Center. Helen Barrow was born in Lake Creek and spent her…
Amy Grissom
February 8, 2012 by
My Mother: Amy ‘Davis’ Grissom Written by: Don Grissom This is the life of Amy Grissom as I remember it. Her parents moved from Missouri in 1886 and homesteaded near the head of Tyler Creek on the Greenspring Mountain. Amy was born in 1890. She had several brothers and sisters. Amy got a teacher’s certificate…
Amber Owen
February 7, 2012 by
AMBER ’COHRON’ OWEN By Kathleen Berryman From Dan Berryman’s recollections. Amber Owen was one-quarter Choctaw Indian and grew up in Texas. Her family was very poor and she picked cotton as a young girl. She married Jack Moses Owen, who was Dan’s grandfather. Jack and Amber had five children, one son Kenneth, and four daughters,…
Gate-way to Lake Creek
January 30, 2012 by
Welcome sign as you enter Lake Creek. Provided by B-K Ranch. Come visit our beautiful rural area. This sign is setting on what was once Vern Meyer’s property. As you can see by the sign there is a beautiful General Store, which includes an ice cream parlor. Across the street is the LCHS and a wonderful…
