Shelton McMurphey Johnson House Skinner Butte Interpretive Project

FAIN: TA-296571-24

Shelton-McMurphey House (Eugene, OR 97401-2600)
Leah Murray (Project Director: June 2023 to present)

New interpretive signage and a web-based audio tour for a historic site to tell the story of Native American displacement, early European settlers, the rise of recreation culture, and KKK protest.

This grant project will fund the development interpretive signage and a web-based audio tour to tell the story of Skinner Butte Park as it relates to the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House through multiple forms of interpretive storytelling. This history includes Native American husbandry and displacement, early white settlers’ territorial land claims, the growth of public infrastructure, the hobby of recreation, and the city of Eugene, and nearby African American settlement and subsequent KKK events. Grant funds will be used to hire an interpretive consultant and an audio production contractor, provide honoraria for Advisory Committee members, and support project management.