Oregon Motor Stages Company Employees
The Oregon Motor Stages Company took over the franchise to run city buses in the city of Salem in 1931 and would operate until [...]
August 2021
Ernest B. Flake
Ernest Benjamin Flake. Willamette Heritage Center's Collections, 84.43.1.101.1 Entrepreneur E.B. Flake started a Salem Advertising Empire, Flower Shop and Pet [...]
July 2021
Great Oregon Steam-Up
Celebrating the Bygone-Era of Steam on Mid-Valley Farms a Tradition in Itself Steam engine belted up to a threshing machine [...]
April 2021
Section Houses Site
Section Houses on Mill Street, 1943. Oregon Department of Transportation Photo. The west side of the WHC's parking lot once belonged to [...]
St. Paul’s School
St. Paul's Church and rectory at southwest corner of Church and Chemeketa Streets. Cronise Photo. Greg Nelson Collection, Salem Public Library. [...]
February 2021
St. Paul’s A.M.E. Church, Salem, Oregon
St. Paul's A.M.E. Church, Salem, Oregon. Photo Source: State Library of Oregon reference number 2006.001.0705. In my line of work, I have [...]
August 2020
Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Oddfellows I.O.O.F.
Chemeketa Lodge No. 1, Oddfellows I.O.O.F. Detail. I.O.O.F. Letter head from certificate. WHC Collections, 2012.077.0023. Three decades after [...]
July 2020
W. Carlton Smith Collection
Biography William Carlton Smith served in World War I for two years as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. From about 1902 [...]
May 2020
Obituary: Leslie Junior High School Building (1927-2020)
The Leslie Junior High Building at 710 Howard St SE in Salem was torn down in the Spring of 2020. Learn more about its construction and siting back in 1926-27 and the drama that ensued.
February 2020
Radio St. Valentine Contest – Clara Virginia Barton
Grebe Synchrophase ad from the October 1924 issue of Radio in the Home magazine. Americanradiohistory.com In February 1925 Cupid delivered a very [...]