The dragonfly is generally associated with the symbolic meaning of transformation. Here are common meanings for this animal totem: Why to go for a dragonfly tattoo, you may ask. Just like the insect, tattoos that depict the dragonfly symbolize change and renewal.
Sailor Diggins was named the first county seat of Josephine County in 1856. Kerbyville was next chosen by the electorate, as the county seat, in 1857. In 1886 the county seat was relocated to Grants Pass, a newly built town along the recently completed railroad. In 1981, the Legislative Assembly joined Oregon's district and circuit courts into a unified state-funded court system.
U.S. Highway 70 passes east-west through most of the county's incorporated towns, those being Fort Towson, Sawyer, Hugo, Soper, and Boswell, and U.S. Highway 271 traverses north-south from west of Grant (also incorporated) to Hugo (the county seat) and north to Antlers in Pushmataha County.