Francis Feller Family Collection
Background Francis (Francois) Feller (1839-1932) was born on July 28, 1839, in Haute Kontz, France. In 1855, he immigrated to the United States [...]
April 2025
September 2018
Belle Passi
Neill and Esther Johnson, Belpassi pioneers. Used with permission MGB Family Tree, Ancestry.com It was late August 1851, a miserably wet and [...]
July 2017
Mickye Bressler – Jersey Cattle Club Queen
Mickye Bressler 1958 Jersey Dairy Queen sharing her crown with a calf. WHC 2016.059.0001 It’s that time of year. 4-H and FFA [...]
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 [...]
December 2016
Holiday Windows – Renska’s Specialty Shop
1928 Christmas display window of the Specialty Shop owned by Renska Swart.Photo Credit: WHC 1963.001.0064.001.83 “Despite the hurry [...]
July 2016
Cartoon Clue to Proposed Woodburn Air Force Base
Cartoon by Monte Leo Jones for the Capital Journal. Research indicates that this cartoon may have been depicting the proposed Woodburn Air Force Base [...]
April 2016
Della Stamp’s Woodburn
Portrait of Della Bradley Stamps, c. 1900. Willamette Heritage Center 0063.001.0059.001.61 By Kylie Pine (Originally Published in Statesman Journal April [...]
June 2015
June 18, 1915
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Graduates of the class of 1915 from Sacred Heart Academy were treated to the following address by the Reverend [...]
June 2014
Salem Senators’ Triple Threat: the Girod Brothers
Salem Senators Baseball Team, circa 1920s. WHC Collections, 2011.030.0401 At one point in every child’s life a stick becomes a [...]