These are just a few of the old photos that I was able to find of Shady Cove's past.  If anyone has some old photos of Shady Cove and would like me to put them on this Web Site, please email them to me.

The '64 Flood...struck the Rogue Valley, causing $16 million worth of damage and stranding nearly 1,000 people.  Shady Cove was one of the hardest hit areas, where debris wiped out the center span of the bridge, flooded the local mill and inundated the town with several feet of water.  Since then, the Lost Creek Dam was built.

 
Shady Cove Market 1960

Old Shady Cove Sign

Ginger Roger's bought a house in Shady Cove in 1940.  She spent all the time she could there, with her mother (with whom she was extremely close).  She considered herself an Oregonian, and was registered to vote and paid taxes there.  In 1990 she sold the house, and moved into another one in Medford.  Ginger Roger's first performed at the Craterian Theater in 1926, 18 months after it opened when she was only 15 years old.  While in her 80's, Ginger Rogers appeared again on the Craterian Theater stage in 1993 to help raise funds for the buildings renovation.  To honor the generous and graceful entertainer, who died in 1995, the theater includes her name.

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1st Shady Cove Post Office

2nd Shady Cove Post Office

Shady Cove's First City Hall 1973-1979



The Crew that worked on the Shady Cove Bridge-1921

Houston Homestead on Rogue River Drive was built in 1897
for William Houston.  The house later burned down.

Ferry on Rogue River near Shady Cove operated 1891-1895 by John Black