Waldo is a

ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...

located in

Josephine County Josephine County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 88,090. The county seat is Grants Pass. The county is named after Virginia Josephine Rollins (1834–1912), a settler who was t ...

Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...

, United States, about three miles from the California border.''History of southern Oregon : comprising Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Curry and Coos Counties'' (Portland, OR: A.G. Walling, 1883), p. 446, 456-7. It was settled in 1852 as a gold mining camp called Sailor's Diggings.Illinois Valley history page
on Cave Junction, Oregon web site.Grants Pass history page
on Grants Pass, Oregon web site. The place was later renamed "Waldo" in honor of William Waldo, who in 1853 was the Whig candidate for governor of California. This was apparently because, believing the settlement was in California, William Waldo campaigned there and convinced the populace that they should vote for him. The town was the first county seat of Josephine County.Josephine County history
at Oregon State Archives. The post office for Waldo was established in 1856; service was discontinued in 1928.

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Waldo, Oregon History
Former populated places in Josephine County, Oregon Ghost towns in Oregon 1852 establishments in Oregon Territory Former county seats in Oregon {{JosephineCountyOR-geo-stub

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