The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Gilchrist was the last lumber company town in Oregon. The town was founded in 1938 by the family-owned Gilchrist Timber Company, with Frank and Mary Gilchrist as the owners and town founders. The mill moved there from Jasper County, Mississippi, in search of lumber and lower taxes, building a dam on the Little Deschutes River to create the mill pond. In 1939, Gilchrist School was built by the Public Works Administration.
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Start Gilchrist’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gilchrist’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Gilchrist, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Gilchrist is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Gilchrist has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Ed and Genevieve Deedon Homestead in La Pine, 18.4 miles away.
Gilchrist and the nearest listed places
Closest to Gilchrist
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.