In the Land of Lakes
Welcome to Malin
Founded by a group of Czechoslovakian settlers in 1909, the City of Malin is a farming community of 800 people with a rich agrarian past. Located in the Upper Klamath Basin, the City sits at an elevation of 4,062 feet, and is less than a mile from the Oregon-California border. This area has been a critical juncture for many historical events, which we plan to recount here as time permits. This portion of the website is still in the early stages of construction.
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Fly-over photo of Malin looking northwest and welcome sign at entrance to town along Highway 50 (inset).
View of Broadway Avenue looking north. The color photo on top was taken in 2019, and the black and white snapshot on the bottom dates to 1959. Courtesy of Ryan Bartholomew.
Tule Lake War Relocation Center which served as a segregation center for Japanese-Americans during WWII, in the vicinity of modern-day Newell, California. Horse Mountain is seen in the background.
"Abalone Hill" - better known as Horse Mountain. This is a sumi (ink wash technique) watercolor by the late artist George Tamura, painted from inside the fence at the Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1944 when he was 16 years old. Courtesy of the National Park Service.
A sketch of Abalone Hill which - together with "Castle Rock" (The Peninsula) - served as prominent landmarks and focal points for the Japanese-Americans interned at the Camp. Courtesy of the Shizuko and Shigenori Oiye Collection, Densho Digital Repository.
Stacking hay with a derrick at the M.M. Stastny farm just east of Malin, circa 1939. Courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation.