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Home › Township › Notable Figures › Cordelia Lathrop Cordelia Lathrop Born 1866, Briarmont Died 1949, Briarmont Family The Lathrop Family Occupation Storekeeper Cordelia Lathrop was born in 1866, the year the camp became a town, and grew up in the rooms over h...

Home › Township › Peoples & Culture › The Women of Briarmont Township The mill town Bridget Nolan, a widow from County Cork, cooked for the camp from 1858 and opened a boarding house in 1866. Widows kept several of the other boarding houses on the mill road, s...

Home › Township › Peoples & Culture › Local News Outlets › The Hartwell County Courier The Hartwell County Courier Hartwell County was five years old when the first issue of The Hartwell County Courier came out in 1877. The early paper paid its way by printing...

Home › Historical Archive › Town Legends › Knock Twice In fog, people at the harbor knock before they step aboard. You pick a piling at the edge of the floats, rap it twice with your knuckles and listen. If something under the dock knocks back, you stay ashore...

Home › Historical Archive › Town Legends › Last Stake At orientation, in the week before finals and again on commencement day, older students tell this one on the main campus walk, usually to someone who has read the plaque and asked. The stake marked the end ...

Home › Township › Legends & Myths › The Legends and Myths of Briarmont Briarmont's tales get told at the places they are about, on the harbor floats and the campus walks, and each one comes with something to do. None of them has been proven. People keep the cu...

Home › The Historical Archive This shelf holds the record of how Briarmont started: the timber camp of 1857 and the company that grew out of it, the will of 1911 that left the founder's estate to the town, the forestry school that opened there in 1918, and the...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge Campus › Neil Ostrander Neil Ostrander Age In his sixties From Hartwell County Lives Briarmont Occupation President of Oakridge College Neil Ostrander is the President of Oakridge College, and new to the office. He grew up in...

To the people who teach at Oakridge, I'm Neil Ostrander, the college's new president. I spent most of my working life marking timber in the county's forests, and nearly everything I know I learned from somebody who showed me once and then stood back while I go...

Home › Oakridge College › Academics › Majors and Programs A student at Oakridge chooses a major and a level when registering. A certificate takes 30 credits, an associate degree 60 and a bachelor's degree 120. The majors fall under five departments, and Depart...

Home › Oakridge College › Academics › Departments Every major at Oakridge belongs to one of five departments, and Majors and Programs lists which. Arts When a play goes up on campus, the cast, the lights and the set tend to come out of the same few Arts classr...

Out of character. This page is written to you, the player, if your character teaches at Oakridge. Getting a course If you'd like your character to teach, talk to whoever holds the Oakridge Faculty seat in the Briarmont Group Leads group. Come with an idea of t...

Dear students, If you've been accepted, you've already seen my name at the bottom of your letter. It's Neil Ostrander, and I'm new in the president's office. Before that I was a forester in this county for forty-odd years, and my boots are still by the office ...

Out of character. Everything below is written to you as a player, for a character who studies at Oakridge. Enrolling Enrolling happens in world: you use the computer in the Admissions office to apply, the printer beside it for your letter if you're accepted, t...

Home › Township › Civil Services › Sheriff's Department › Rebecca Calder Rebecca Anne Calder Born June 12th, 1960 Honorific Sheriff-Coroner Nickname Bex Gender Female Eyes Hazel-green Hair Dark Auburn/Reddish Brown, with grey now worn in a practical ponytail o...

Home › Oakridge College › Greek Life › Rho Nu Kappa › Aurelia Valen ✎ Written by Lizzy Hunter Aurelia Valen Born 1901 Died 1983 Gender Woman Organization Rho Nu Kappa Sorority Affiliations The Briarmont Improvement Club BACKGROUND Aurelia Valen was born into a...

Home › Oakridge College › Greek Life › Alpha Chi Epsilon › Ward Ashton Ward Ashton Born June 3, 1900 Birthplace Briarmont, CA Died November 19, 1974 Place of death Corvallis, OR Gender Male Circumstances of death Complications following a stroke. Organization ...

Home › Township › Civil Services › Sheriff's Department › Franklin James Doyle Franklin James Doyle Gender Male Born March 4, 1937 Birthplace Briarmont, CA Died November 3, 2019 Place of Death Bodega Bay, CA Eyes Brown Hair Dark Brown Height 5'"9 Past ranks Sh...