Finding Mabel
Childhood portrait of Mabel Skiff, Willamette Heritage Center collections, 2019.013.0081 This story begins with an estrangement between sisters, Carrie and [...]
February 2024
October 2022
Martin Family Photograph Collection
Background The William and Rose Cleantha [Blood] Martin family originated in Muskegon Michigan. They emigrated to Oregon in 1885 first living in Dayton, [...]
October 2021
Japanese American Community, 1942
On March 27, 1942, Rev. Andrew Y. Kuroda of the Salem Japanese Community Church completed a census of Japanese American Families living in Salem [...]
May 2018
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 [...]
February 2018
1876 Election Scandal Money Leads to Ladd & Bush Bank
Following the money in the 1876 Election Scandal Leads to a Salem bank. By Kylie Pine What do an $8,000 dollar check, ciphered telegrams, [...]
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 [...]
April 2017
Salem Keizer School District Records
The Willamette Heritage Center houses over 45 cubic feet of records compiled by the Salem Keizer School District (2002.020) and has an extensive Yearbook [...]
January 2017
January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy
Mellow Moon Pavilion was built the summer of 1925 by owners Mills and Albright at the west end of the Marion-Polk county bridge in [...]
November 2016
Pennoyer’s Folly: Two Thanksgivings for Oregon
Thanksgiving postcard from the Muellhaupt family collection WHC 2006.047.0021 “Governor Pennoyer is an original, if a somewhat irreverent humorist. He is the [...]
July 2016
William and Ann Rector
Readers should feel free to use information from this article, however credit must be given to the Willamette Heritage Center and to the author. by [...]