OREGON — Over 100 years ago, a Missouri-based lumber company built what became known as Maxville, a segregated logging town in northeastern Oregon. Archaeologists have just discovered artifacts from the town’s lost Black neighborhood. Archaeologist Sophia Tribelhorn holds in her hand pieces of charred animal bones, decorated glass and a Levi Strauss workwear rivet… the rediscovery of Black history at Maxville: a former timber company town near Wallowa in northeastern Oregon. …The Missouri-based Bowman-Hicks Lumber Company set up the town in 1923, bringing in skilled loggers from the American South. About 40 to 60 Black people would eventually come to live and work in Maxville as part of a total population of approximately 400 people. Those lives, however, were segregated along typical early-20th-century color lines. …After the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Company closed Maxville in 1933, a severe winter storm in 1946 caused most of the remaining town structures to collapse. The exact location of where the Black families lived was lost.