JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – People in Jacksonville got a taste of the Old West and the area’s gold mining days. Every weekend from Memorial Day through Labor Day, the 1863 Beekman Bank building, the first financial institution North of San Francisco, ...
JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — It’s a name you see all over Jacksonville, but who was Beekman? First things first, his name was Cornelius Beekman, and he opened the very first bank in the Pacific Northwest in the 1860s. It’s still standing in ...