In this capacity they have charge of and maintain the many historical markers you see on Oregon's highways. I have often wondered who does that work, now I know. This photo exhibit highlights the work done by this committee in the last few years.

This is the way Lowell Tiller and Dick Ackerman found the Historical Marker relating to the Southern Route to Oregon. Many of these signs were installed more than thirty years ago and are now suffering signs of serious deterioration.

Dick Ackerman, Lowell Tiller, and their volunteer committee maintain and refurbish these signs as needed. Some are repaired on site, and others are brought into Salem, where other volunteers recreate them.

The Southern Route has been called by many names, but is mostly known as the Applegate Trail.

This sign needed its posts reset, as well as repair to the sign itself. Here Dick Ackerman mixes filler for the holes and cracks in the sign.

Here's Dick filling the cracks you can observe in the first picture.

The face is painted white to fill in the incised words

The finished sign, which can now be read and enjoyed by many new generations of travelers.
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