Phone: (541) 301-7615 • Email: Chris@AshlandAgent.com • Gateway Real Estate, 5 N. Main St. Ashland, Oregon 97520

About the Plaza and the first real estate in Ashland, Oregon

Ashland had its beginnings in the 1840's with the erection of a water-powered sawmill and flour mill on the banks of Ashland Creek. The mill structures were located along a portion of the creek just above where the Ashland Plaza now stands.

Shops and boarding houses were soon built on what is the present creek side site of the Ashland Plaza representing the first improved real estate in Ashland, Oregon. Because many of the early settlers came from other towns in the U.S. of the name Ashland, the townspeople dubbed the new settlement Ashland Mills. Ashland Mills became an official town with the opening of a U.S. post office in 1855. By 1859, Ashland Mills, Oregon had a population of 50, all of whom lived in and around the town and Plaza center. By 1900, the town had grown to a population of 3000. Ashland Mills had then become known simply as Ashland, and the very center of town was referred to as The Ashland Plaza.

To this day, The Ashland Plaza is still the center of activity in this wonderful small town of just over 20,000 population. Throughout the years, the Plaza has been maintained to reflect the first days of Ashland, and is one of the nation's most precious historical sites.

Chris Hale is a full time, Ashland, Oregon Real Estate Agent and Ashland Oregon Real Estate Broker
representing both Sellers and Buyers with residential and rural residential homes and real estate for sale in Ashland, Oregon.
Chris Hale, Gateway Real Estate Ashland Oregon, offers homes for sale in Ashland Oregon as well as all real estate for sale
in Ashland Oregon plus full real estate services for Southern Oregon Real Estate, Jackson County Oregon Real Estate,
and these Rogue Valley Oregon Real Estate communities: Talent Oregon Real Estate, Phoenix Oregon Real Estate,
Jacksonville Oregon Real Estate, and Medford Oregon Real Estate.

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