In mid-March I looked at a group of photographs in the collection of the Junction City Historical Museum (http://www.junctioncity.com/history/index.html). They have two locations in downtown Junction City, The Lee House (a block west of the Post Office) and the Pitney House (next door to the Dept of Motor Vehicles). Both houses have been restored and offer many fine artifacts, the Lee House offering greater display space. In the Lee House are a number of vintage photographs in displays of cultural materials and a few large blow-up images of the landscape area, some with good descriptive labels.
The museums are only open on Thursday afternoons and well worth the visit. If you are cruising around Junction City on other days, you can still visit the small garden area behind the Lee House where there are some sample wheels of a curious railway that existed for a short time in the early 1900s that carried lumber from the foothills up High Pass Road down to more level ground. At least that was the hope. The high trestles built to level the track were unstable and not trusted by the loggers, who left the slow rolling rail cars while crossing the bridge and walked through the canyon and met the car on the other side.
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