In 1909, Czech immigrants living in the American Midwest sent a scouting party to find the perfect place to settle and recreate the agrarian life they left behind in Eastern Europe.
They found it in the idyllic farmlands of what soon became the charming town of Malin. Set amidst the lush, rolling hills less than a mile above the California Oregon border, Malin greets visitors with a vast city park of towering Ash trees that features an Olympic sized swimming pool. The picturesque downtown boasts a refurbished 1930 movie theater, and several “yes-of-course-we-cook-from-scratch eateries.”
Malin is also the home of the very first Park District in the state of Oregon – dating back to 1944. The park’s buliding fund started with selling boxes of potatoes one at a time. To learn more about the town’s history, politely ask the folks at the hardware store to let you in to the Historical Society Museum, where a WWII flying ace’s journal is just one of the many treasures.
