Klamath County Museum Outreach Tour August 22 Moore Park, with Coordinator Kristen Sonniksen

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Klamath County Museum offered this past Saturday an Outreach Tour on August 22, 2020 with Coordinator Kristen Sonniksen. At least 20 people showed up at 9 AM for a tour of Moore Park. Where Coordinator Kristen Sonniksen started the tour at The Gingerbread house explaining what’s at Moore Park. There are large picnic areas with barbeque pits, tennis/pickle ball courts, soccer field, open play areas, disc golf course, extensive trials, day camp area. There was once ice skating and a zoo. “In 1910, the Moore family donated the land for the Riverside School and for a magnificent park to the City of Klamath Falls. The park was originally designated as Moore Memorial Park, dedicated to Klamath County pioneers and located on the upper west shore of Lake Ewauna. The city sold the land to the Great Northern Railway in the 1920s.” Linkville and the Moore Family

Museum Coordinator Kristen Sonniksen mentioned that 114 aches were donated in September 1946 by Rufus Scudder Moore and his wife Clara and Charles’ widow Mary. Then about 1946 the two widows donated quite a bit more to equal the 458 aches presently today.

In the late 70’s when the zoo closed down there was quite a bit of crime in the park. A beating that almost cost a man his life. After that time they tried to make Moore Park a safe place to come to as it is presently today, a very safe place to visit and enjoy.

There has been a conversely over the Lynwood property line on Arrowhead Rd and the boundary of Moore Park according to the specifications of the deed. According to maps on file the situation seems to be resolved by the property line with Arrowhead Rd. Apparently the issue was dropped. And in this same area there are control burns on the side of the hills and the last control burn was two years ago according to Museum Coordinator Kristen Sonniksen.

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And there was a zoo at one time with bears, foxes, skunks, all sorts of birds, peacocks, three different kinds of dear and elk in a different areas. For some reason unknown to anyone someone came across one coyote. They just had the coyote in their precession and didn’t know what to do with it. So they decided to just make a zoo. It lasted until about 1976 and eventually dismantled due to the changing of attitudes of caging animals. There are about three different rumors about what happened to all the animals but there is no solid evidence as to what ever happened to them according to Museum Coordinator Kristen Sonniksen on the tour of Moore Park. Some where there is a dedication garden to our sister city and the garden was moved to Moore Park from Veterans Park a few years back. Rotorua, New Zealand is Klamath Falls sister city.

In 1963 Rotorua gained city status. The Mayor of Klamath Falls issued a proclamation the 20-26 January 1963 would be Sister City Week.

In February 1963 Walt and Mary McIntyre visited Rotorua from Klamath Falls. Among the activities arranged for them was attendance at the Settlers' Day luncheon. This story was printed in the Daily Post, 2 February 1963. August 1964, Mayor Linton reported back to Council on his visit to Klamath Falls. He had already since his return home, received from Klamath Falls, landscape plans for a Rotorua Garden to be built in their Veteran's Park. The residents of Klamath Falls would like a small Maori meeting house as a central motif in the garden.

In 1967 Mr Veatch, Mayor of Klamath Falls and his wife Marty, led a 23 strong party to Rotorua. They were welcomed with a cavalcade down Tutanakai Street into Fenton Street with an official welcome outside the city hall on a flower-covered dais. The Rotorua Highland Pipe Band and marching girls preceded the open-top car and bus and four planes flew in formation overhead Rotorua Library

The outpost of Linkville (present-day Klamath Falls) was established by George Nurse (1820–1905) in 1867 at the juncture of the Link River and Lake Ewauna. In 1874, William S. Moore (1829–1899) entered the Klamath Basin, where he built and operated a sawmill at the Klamath Agency. In 1877, he and his son, Charles Summer Moore (1857–1915), built Linkville’s first sawmill on the west bank of the Link River, about halfway along its 1.3-mile length. They dug a millrace (later named the Keno Canal) on the west bank to power the mill and transport logs from Upper Klamath Lake.

Nurse owned the land and was a partner in this enterprise, sharing thirds with William and Charles Moore. He sold the land and his interest to the Moores in 1882. William Moore turned the business over to his two sons, Charles and Rufus Scudder Moore (1855–1931), in 1887 when Rufus bought his father's interest. They operated the business until 1909 as the Moore Brothers Mill. In all, the Moore brothers owned more than 20,000 acres of land near the Link River and Keno. By 1911, they had sold all but 2,000 acres, most of it to the Weyerhauser Land and Timber Company.

Charles Moore was a Klamath County judge from 1894 to 1898 and Republican state treasurer from 1899 to 1907. He married Mary Langell in 1884, and they had two children. Charles Summer worked as a merchandise clerk and manager from 1878 to 1899, but his later years were devoted to banking and timber interests.

After quitting the milling business, Rufus worked as a Klamath County surveyor until his retirement. He was one of the first to climb and survey Mount Pitt (present-day Mount McLoughlin). He was married to Clara Shaw and had no children. Linkville and the Moore Family