Beans Delayed Start of Salem Schools in 1953
Beans Delayed Start of Salem Schools in 1953 Beans? Yes. Beans. The hot topic at the Salem School Board meetings in July of 1953 [...]
September 2018
Belle Passi
Neill and Esther Johnson, Belpassi pioneers. Used with permission from Ancestry.com - MGB Family Tree. It was late August 1851, a miserably wet [...]
August 2018
Movies Come to Salem
Movies Got a Slow Start in Salem This summer’s exhibit at the Willamette Heritage Center looks at how technology changed our community between 1880-1920. [...]
Salem U.S.O. the “It” Spot in WWII
Salem U.S.O. One of Salem’s USO buildings. Look familiar? It is now the offices for Sherman, Sherman, Johnnie & Hoyt, LLP, on the [...]
May 2018
Pogo Stick Fad in Salem
Salem residents on Pogo Sticks as published in the Oregon Magazine February 1922. (WHC Collections 2008.038.0018) Murray Wade, editor of the Oregon [...]
April 2018
Eola
Hillside view of the former town of Eola, date unknown. WHC 2004.10.360 Have you ever time-traveled on your daily commute? I'll admit [...]
February 2018
Butteville
View of Butteville from across the Willamette River, circa 1910. WHC 0082.002.0022.059 On a beautiful February day last week, I took a [...]
January 2018
Steamboat Claire – The Ship That Came In
I was reminded recently at the funeral of a loved one, of a simple phrase that carries special meaning in my family, "when our [...]
November 2017
Floyd McMullen – Salem’s only firefighter killed in the line of duty
Oregon State Capitol on fire April 25, 1935.WHC 2001.3.2 Fire! At 6:43 p.m. on April 25, 1935 the frantic call for help [...]
August 2017
Marion Grade School History
This typed document was found in the Willamette Heritage Center's subject files with very little accompanying information. It was transcribed here for reference purposes. [...]