Lithia Park

Lithia Park is the biggest and most focal park of Ashland, Oregon. It comprises of 93 sections of land of forested canyonland around Ashland Creek, extending from the downtown court up toward its headwaters close Mount Ashland. The recreation center has two expansive greens, a bandshell for open melodic exhibitions, two duck lakes, a vast play area, tennis courts, network structures and, in winter, an ice skating arena. It additionally offers cookout territories and miles of climbing trails.

The zone which currently involves the passage to Lithia Park was the site of Abel Helman and Eber Emery's flour process, the main working in what is presently the city of Ashland—set up in 1852. When the town at that point called Ashland Mills had grown up around the region, the old factory had turned into a blemish, filthy with domesticated animals and the plant everything except deserted.

The Chautauqua development was exceptionally compelling in Ashland, and huge numbers of the individuals from the Ladies Chautauqua Club framed the Women's Civic Improvement Club. Fundamental to the focal point of the club was the foundation of a recreation center in Ashland. In 1908, subsequent to campaigning the city board, a change to the city contract was influenced building up a chose park to commission and putting aside all city-claimed property circumscribing Ashland Creek for use as a recreation center.