Welcome to the State of Jefferson

Please feel free to scan our QR Code with your Smart Phone so you can check back and read our Current Issue of Jefferson Backroads each month! ALSO: You can click our Current Issue or Back Issues Tab at left any time to read our past 12 months worth of Publications!

Welcome to the Jefferson Backroads website! We invite you to come back here each month to read our new issue of Jefferson Backroads, our happy little publication. It has turned into a handy Quality Local Business Directory. Each monthly issue is full of stories from the local businesses and community organizations, stories about what we all do for fun around these parts, wonderful stories on the history of our region and lots of events we have going on.

You can also click on our Local Links page to find the websites of A BUNCH of great local businesses that are operating in The State of Jefferson.

We had a BLAST in early 2011 when we were involved with a little TV production - Yep! A small group of us from The State of Jefferson managed to get on TV!! We were on the History Channel's show "How the States got their Shapes." Our Episode is called "Culture Clash." Our State of Jefferson segment of this episode starts about 3 minutes in. Check it out on Youtube by clicking here How the States Got Their Shapes.

There is so much wonderful adventure in The State of Jefferson. We want to share our stories of all that there is to do and see in this historic and rugged part of our great U.S. of A.

When you click on the Maps Tab on our website, you will get an idea of what the Mythical State of Jefferson boundaries (made up of northern California and southern Oregon counties) were projected to be, even until the early 1940s. We have decided to join the "cause" and do our best to keep the adventure and history of The State of Jefferson ALIVE!!

Thank goodness we still have so many nice little restaurants, businesses, shops, inns, farms & ranches, and even Family Dude Ranches in our beautiful piece of Rural America. Our quality Mom & Pop Shops are the true sign of The American Dream still living on even in these tough economic times. In this day and age, isn’t it nice to remember our roots and just get back to the basics? Isn’t that what America was founded on anyway? Independent unique ideas and ventures!

Thomas Jefferson was the Third President of the United States. He was also the principal author of The Declaration of Independence. He had some amazing influence and impact on the early forming of The United States of America. It is quite fitting that The State of Jefferson has such a strong and positive foundational name! America needs to get back to the way our forefathers intended.

We will always strive to bring you happy, positive information, history and articles in the pages of our Jefferson Backroads Publication and Website. There is nothing better than those days when we can all get away from the chaotic highways of life and really slow down to enjoy and explore ALL the beautiful backroads . . . Welcome Home!