Medford, OR & Surrounding Areas

Medford is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. he city was named in 1883 by David Loring, civil engineer and right-of-way agent for the Oregon and California Railroad, after Medford, Massachusetts, which was near Loring's hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. Medford is near the middle ford of Bear Creek.

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Medford is known for its excellent pears.

Attractions: 

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• Alba Park

• The Claire Hanley Arboretum

• Medford Carnegie Library

• Roxy Ann Peak, a dormant volcano which is approximately 30 million years old

• Prescott Park

• Vogel Plaza is the location for numerous local events

• Medford Railroad Park

• Upper and Lower Table Rocks are huge sandstone-basaltic mesas that include lava caps

• The huge blackbird statue located in town

• Rogue Valley Mall

• Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater

• Southern Oregon Historical Society

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