1871 Salem City Directory
What was Salem Like in 1871? If you really want to understand a community, a city directory is a good place to start. In [...]
May 2018
August 2012
Willamette Valley Voices First Volume Available
The Willamette Heritage Center is proud to announce the publication of the first issue of its new historical journal: Willamette Valley Voices. The publication’s mission [...]
July 2012
Research Resources: Salem Catholic Cemeteries
A research request today for help finding the burial in Salem’s Catholic Cemetery. The death record recorded the burial at Salem’s Catholic Cemetery and the [...]
Card Catalog
This obituary clipping, from the Capital Journal Newspaper (8 January 1959, pg 4 Section 4) was found in the WHC's Card Catalog. This series of [...]
Card Catalog
This obituary clipping, from the Capital Journal Newspaper (8 January 1959, pg 4 Section 4) was found in the WHC's Card Catalog. This series of [...]
June 2012
1860 Salem Census
The following is quoted from the booklet: "Oregon Pioneer Wa-Wa" which consists of a compilation of addresses made by Charles B. Moores in relation to [...]
Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover
Today we were cataloging books from a recent donation of materials and came across a copy of an 1869 agricultural report. Not the most thrilling [...]
February 2012
The Silverton Hotel
The latest issue of the Silverton Country Historical Society Newsletter features an article by Fred A. Parkinson on the Silverton Hotel. The article traces Parkinson's [...]
January 2012
"Hop Fever" Featured in latest edition of the OHQ
The Winter 2011 edition of the Oregon Historical Quarterly, published by the Oregon Historical Society, features an article by Peter Kopp on Hop Farming in [...]
December 2011
Sanborn Maps at OSL
The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society printed an article on Sanborn Maps found in the Oregon State Library collections in their [...]