The Letitia Carson Digital History Collection includes primary source documents and photographs, historic maps, newspaper articles, published works, and other documentary evidence about Letitia Carson and her family.
Check out our newest exhibit, “Afro-Indigenous Reconstructions,” curated by Tyler White, Harvard Graduate School of Design, MUP + MDes ’26.”
Our original eight exhibits are:
- Learning from the Land: 12,000 BC – 1900s
- Who was David Carson? 1800-1852
- The Carsons’ Soap Creek Valley Homestead: 1814-1905
- Letitia Carson vs. Greenberry Smith: 1852-1856
- Letitia in Douglas County: 1853-1888
- Soap Creek Valley Land after 1852 to today
- Carson and Lavadour Genealogy: 1780-1900s
- Zybach and Meranda Historiography: 1989-today
Many thanks to Bob Zybach and Jan Meranda for providing the majority of materials in this collection. Visit this exhibit to learn how they uncovered the long-hidden story of Letitia Carson, her homestead, and her unprecedented legal battles.
The Letitia Carson Digital Collection was created with support from the Oregon Heritage Commission.