Flour Sack Quilt
Flour sack quilt, WHC Collections 2025.014.0001 Quilt Description Maker: Ida (Fowler) Dowd Thomas Overall Size: 72" width; 86" length Block [...]
June 2025
June 2023
Emil N. Allport
Emil N. Allport Job Title(s) Carder Dates of Employment c. Sep 1923-1924 Last Name  Allport First Name Emil [...]
October 2020
James C. Sones
James C. Sones Job Title(s) Spinner Dates of Employment c. 1890-1895 Last Name Sones First Name James Middle [...]
March 2019
Mystery Scrapbook
In 1983 a rather non-descript black photo album was donated to the Marion County Historical Society. Only a third of the pages were filled [...]
August 2018
Samuel E. Tolman – Woodmen of the World Headstone
There is something so poignant about sifting thru a probate packet at the Oregon State Archives. The remainders of a human life reduced to [...]
March 2018
Fannie Case – the first woman to climb Mt. Hood?
So often in the process of researching and writing a monthly article for the Statesman Journal, I uncover fascinating side stories. A different angle [...]
September 2017
Annual Labor Day Hike from Salem to Portland
Clipping from the Renska Swart Collection reveals a Labor Day Hike tradition from the late 1920s. Labor Day First Officially Celebrated in Oregon Through mere [...]
January 2017
Frank Stone Barton – Electric Dream House
The Barton family gathered around the radio in their home on 901 Capitol St. NE. Their electrical dream home is now the [...]
June 2016
Hannah Martin – first female legislator from Marion County 1932-1940
Hannah Martin, first woman elected to the Oregon State Legislature. Photo Credit - Oregon Voter, December 31, 1932 Each summer as school [...]
May 2016
The Hirsch Family
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 [...]