National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County

National Register #00000460: Star Ranger Station Tack Room in the Rogue River National Forest, Oregon
15 September 2010
National Register #00000460: Star Ranger Station Tack Room in the Rogue River National Forest, Oregon 26 September 2008
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National Register #00000460
Star Ranger Station Tack Room
6941 Upper Applegate Road
Rogue River National Forest
Built 1911

This small building is one of the oldest surviving Forest Service structures.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt declared that much of the Applegate River watershed would henceforth be protected as a National Forest. This one-room building in the middle of an alfalfa patch was the first administrative headquarters for the Applegate Ranger District. After the Civilian Conservation Corps built a new ranger station in the 1930's, the building was used as a tack room until the 1940's and then for general storage. Over the years, it was moved several times.

A related historic property is the Star Ranger Station.

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