The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center serves as a platform to unify the multiple cultures through educational programs, exhibits, and events. The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center seeks to gather, catalog, preserve, and interpret the rich history of the multicultural logging community of Maxville, Oregon as well as similar communities in the Pacific Northwest. Maxville itself operated until the early 1930s and was unique in that it included 50 or so African Americans and their families and was home to the only segregated school in Oregon. The work is inspired by the Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary, an Oregon Experience called, The Logger's Daughter.

In the last eight years, the Maxville Heritage Project has fostered a reawakening of interest in this rich chapter of history through public lectures and school visits AP articles, publications and an OPB broadcast spotlighting this unique local history. With the ground swell of historic artifacts and stories emerging from descendants and those with relationships to people from Maxville, a large number of video, image, audio and textual digital files, and hard copy images have been collected and tells an inclusive American narrative.

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