Minto Island Hop Yard
Hop Yards on Minto's Island. WHC Collections 1997.014.0018. Minto’s Island Ranch: From Hops Fields to Industrial Settling Ponds to Park I have a [...]
January 2022
October 2019
Prohibition Era in Salem
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Prohibition Era in our country. While we often romanticize this epoch with images [...]
February 2017
Hop Vine Scratch Newspaper, 1925
Newspaper for Hops Pickers The Hop Vine Scratch was a newspaper produced by the Health and Recreation Service of the Lake Brook Hops Ranch [...]
October 2014
October 16, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correpsondent The days headlines from The Daily Capital Journal: CORRESPONDENT’S EXPERIENCES IN PURSUIT OF NEWS Polite French Officer Gave Them [...]
October 8, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The letter to the editor in the Capital Journal’s Monday edition from A. Davis Fleet, in which he took issue [...]
New Photo
Hops Harvest, Independence, Oregon. WHC 2014.067.0001
August 2014
August 5, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent “Germany Demands Italy Assist Her – Repulsed At Liege” “Italy was called on to lend aid to the Germans. [...]
February 2014
Ruth DeSart Lively talks about the Wigrich Hops Ranch Store
http://youtu.be/ArDwZjkOWG4 Last Autumn, we had a chance to talk with Ruth DeSart Lively about her experiences working in the store at the Wigrich Hop Ranch [...]
January 2014
Hops History in Salem
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=209778005414381082444.0004f0fb82107f4a0c258&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Join us at First Wednesday February 5, 2014 to learn more about how the hops industry shaped downtown Salem or check out the [...]
Celebrate History with Beer February 5, 2014
The WHC is teaming up with the Mid-Valley Makers project to celebrate First Wednesday and history in downtown Salem on February 5, 2014. For [...]