South Salem Fire Station No. 4
Historic Address: 397 Lincoln St. SE Current Address: 1585 Liberty St. SE South Salem Fire Station No. 4 was built on Lincoln St. between [...]
April 2024
South Salem Drive-In Theater
Ad for the Salem Drive-in Theater printed in the Capital Journal newspaper on 2 Apr 1952. Image from Newspapers.com This [...]
WPA Sewing Room
Salem WPA Sewing Room in the old high school building. Photo from Oregon Statesman,19 May 1940 p. 13. Image from Newspapers.com [...]
March 2024
Nutria in the Mid-Willamette Valley
Nutria on the grounds of the Willamette Heritage Center. WHC Collections 2012.020.00179 The Short History of Nutria in the Mid-Willamette Valley I [...]
Mamie Varble
Mamie Burch Varble, shared with permission from Ancestry tree. Original photo includes the Burch stepsisters. Mamie Varble was an occupant [...]
Williams Twins
Leslie Junior High School, 1936-37 schoolyear, student body photo. WHC Collections 2023.033.0005 Taken in the 1936-37 school year, this portrait of [...]
February 2024
Finding Mabel
Childhood portrait of Mabel Skiff, Willamette Heritage Center collections, 2019.013.0081 This story begins with an estrangement between sisters, Carrie and [...]
January 2024
Atilana Nayares Phillips
From Chihuahua to Dallas, Oregon in 1907 It sure seems like Atilana Nayares Phillips[1] had an unfair amount of sorrow in her life. Yet [...]
October 2023
Fairfield
Fairfield, Marion County, Oregon Fairfield refers to a community, post office, steamship landing and voting/census precinct located northwest of St. Louis, Marion, Oregon. [...]
September 2023
Dr. S.A. Davis Comes to Salem, 1890
It was likely a warm summer day when the steam locomotive huffed and hissed into the Salem railroad depot in 1890, and the travel [...]