Play our Jacksonville History Trivia game! Every Friday through Monday from April 3 through May 4, Historic Jacksonville, Inc. we have posted a daily Jacksonville history trivia question on Facebook. Here are all 20 questions:
- What was the original name of Jacksonville?
- What Jacksonville gardens were a popular Pacific Northwest tourist destination around 1900?
- What was the last trial held at the historic County Courthouse before the county seat was moved from Jacksonville to Medford?
- How many Jacksonville schoolhouses have stood on Bigham Knoll?
- What was the nickname of the Rogue River Valley Railway’s Engine No. 1?
- What is the oldest government building in Oregon that has remained in continuous government use since it was constructed?
- What is the oldest Jacksonville residence still standing?
- What building housed Jacksonville’s first museum?
- What was the first church built in the Rogue Valley?
- What notorious landmark originally stood on the site of Jacksonville’s Masonic Hall?
- What individual is credited with “saving” Jacksonville and leading its revival in the 1960s?
- What commercial building in Jacksonville once had a roller-skating rink?
- Name two U.S. Presidents who have spent the night in Jacksonville.
- Jacksonville was home to the first Chinatown in Oregon. Where was it located?
- What is the oldest wooden commercial building still standing on Jacksonville’s California Street?
- Who was the first person buried in Jacksonville’s pioneer cemetery?
- What commercial building was the site of Jacksonville’s baseball field in the early 1900s—home to the Jacksonville Gold Bricks baseball team?
- What Jacksonville building was constructed in the early 1900s as a sanitarium and health spa, part of the “Wellville” movement pioneered by the Kellogg brothers, inventors of Kellog’s Cornflakes?
- What Jacksonville organization was once described as having “something to do with driving the predatory wild animals out of the forest surrounding Jacksonville”?
- What flower was marketed in the 1900s as “Jacksonville Gold”?
Message your answers to us on Facebook (historicjville) or e-mail us at info@historicjacksonville.org“>info@historicjacksonville.org“>info@historicjacksonville.org“>info@historicjacksonville.org. All answers must be submitted by Thursday, May 7. The person with the most correct answers to the 20 questions will win a $25 gift certificate good at restaurants and stores throughout Jacksonville to enjoy once we can get out again. In the event of a tie, we’ll send out tie breaker questions to the finalists. Good luck!