Another stop along the Sumpter Valley Railway, Austin was a major supply depot for other gold towns. At it’s height it had three saw mills, a large jail, and several stores and office buildings.
The white building in the trees is called “Austin House,” it was a long established hotel and stage coach stop when Mr. and Mrs. Minot Austin bought it in 1888. The original building was about twice the size it is now, a picture of the original is in Lambert Florin’s Oregon Ghost Towns. I don’t know what the other, two story building’s purpose was for sure, but I think it was used as a school house.
Down the road and around the hill is “downtown” Austin.
No stores or office buildings remain, but there are several houses. Most of them seem to be newer houses though.
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[...] Ghost Town, Austin or Austin Junction. The white building in the trees is the original Stage Coach stop and hotel. It was purchased [...]