Historical Marker

The Telephone Exchange

Historical marker location:
1926 1st Street, Baker City, Oregon
( Marker is on 1st Street near Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Baker City Historic District. Established 1874.

The largest living organism in the world is a fungus in Oregon. The Armillaria ostoyae fungus covers over 2,200 acres of forest in eastern Oregon and is estimated to be over 2,400 years old. It is also known as the "Humongous Fungus."