Just Released: Willamette Valley Voices Waterways Edition
Volume II, No. 2 of the Willamette Heritage Center’s historical journal Willamette Valley Voices has just come back from the printers. This issue offers articles [...]
August 2013
Get Published!
The Willamette Heritage Center invites submission of manuscripts for publication in the summer issue of its bi-annual publication, Willamette Valley Voices: Connecting Generations, scheduled for [...]
August 2012
Willamette Valley Voices First Volume Available
The Willamette Heritage Center is proud to announce the publication of the first issue of its new historical journal: Willamette Valley Voices. The publication’s mission [...]
May 2012
Lee House Preview
Changes are afoot in the in the Jason Lee House at the Willamette Heritage Center. Want to see more? Join us at Sheep to Shawl, [...]
February 2012
Bush House to Display Japanese Influence in Early Salem
[slideshow]March 1 - May 27, 2012, the Bush House Museum will be featuring an exhibit that follows the influence of Japanese Culture on early Salem [...]
WU and WOU Students recognized for action during recent flood
Source: KPTV.com KPTV News Video – (Source video no longer available) The Heritage Programs of the Oregon Parks and [...]
August 2005
Mission Mill
Mission Mill Museum Thomas Kay Woolen Mill. Water Tower reads: Mission Mill Museum, WHC Collections 2007.001.1576 Located three blocks from the State [...]
Mission Mill Wool Making
Making Woolen Fabric at Mission Mill: A Step by Step Process Follow the "fleece to fabric" display that so graphically demonstrates 19th century technology [...]
Mission Mill Timeline
Mission Mill Timeline 1863: Thomas Lister Kay, founder of Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, comes to Oregon. 1889: Kay builds the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, [...]
Marion County Historical Society
Marion County Historical Society History In the late 1940s, when proposals were made to demolish both the building that housed Oregon's capitol at statehood [...]