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“Mill Place” on the Willamette: A New Mission House for the Methodists in Oregon, 1841-1844 is a thesis written by Elisabeth Brigham Walton Potter and submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Early American Culture from the University of Delaware. Completed in June of 1965, the thesis is written in two parts as a resource for decision making in the transformation of the Jason Lee House (1841) and the Methodist Parsonage (1841) into potentially interpreted house museums. As such the document gives a detailed history of the Methodist Mission to Oregon and the building, occupation, and current state (1965) of the Jason Lee House and the Parsonage. The links to the side of this page include the digitized text of the thesis and the plates in PDF form. The content included is as follows:
Abstract
Acknowledgements
PART I: The Oregon Mission, Guidelines for Interpretation
I: Motivation for the Enterprise…………………..1
II: Gaining a Foothold…………………………….21
III: The Reinforcement of 1840………………………41
VI: Mission Activities on the Willamette…………….57
V: The Momentum of Missionary Influence…………….140
PART II: PROJECTED RESTORATION
VI: The Jason Lee House…………………………….175
VII: The Parsonage………………………………….184′
VIII:Site Location and Development……………………190
XI: Potential for Historical Interpretation…………..
Summary and Conclusion………………………………205
Notes……………………………………………..following each chapter
Bibliography……………………………………….222
Appendixes (transcribed primary documents)
Errata…………………………………………….last
Plates (see individual files to right)
Digitized Files
Plates
Plate 1:
Conjectural Portrait , Jason Lee, Superintendent of the Methodist Mission in Oregon 1834-1843. From Cornelius J. Brosnan, Jason Lee, Prophet of the New Oregon,courtesy of The Willamette University Library. Digital file here.
Plate 2:
Columbia River, reduced from a survey made by the United States Exploring Expedition, 1841. Oregon Mission Stations.
Plate 3
Stations of the Oregon Mission. Map of the Oregon Territory by the United States Exploring Expedition, Charles Wilkes, Esqr. Commander, 1841. J. H. Young, Sherman and Smith, New York, engravers. Courtesy of the Oregon State Library (original). Not digitized here as it can be more easily viewed and in color at the Library of Congress website here.
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