Whole page for Fieldbrook, Photos of note: 1879 view of the J. Vance Mill; Christie Home; D.V. Lance home; Louis Smith house; Timmon's Ranch. Fieldbrook began in 1902. Bill Lindsay owned much of the Valley in 1860. John Vance bought out the Lindsay interests in the early 1870's. 3 houses he built near 299 still stand. In 1902 Fieldbrook was just getting started. It was being settled by both the Irish and the blue noses from New Brunswick. Poland's shingle mill had started & Carson was logging in the upper valley. There is a oil well being drilled. At 1,200 feet they hit granite rock. After 1,500 feet they cleared the granite. George Abbott notes that Fieldbrook was first called Buckman's Prairie. It was started as a town after Hammond bought out Vance interests in 1901. The railroad was first named the Eureka & Klamath Railroad, and later it was called the Oregon & Eureka Railroad. It used to run to Crannell & on to Trinidad. The townsite was a prairie in 1901. Kids used to find Elk horns throughout the valley. The Fieldbrook school now has 49 pupils. Quite a growth has came to the valley since 1943 says Mrs. Sarah McCurdy, Principal of the school. In Lindsay creek valley below Fieldbrook, Glenn & Otis Timmons own 2,000 acres which they purchased from Hammond in 1943. Glen came to the valley in 1919 just after WWI. Above Fieldbrook Mr. & Mrs. Wylie Mather bought the 8,000 acre Carson Ranch in late 1945.