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 is to provide a showcase for scholarly writing pertaining to History and Heritage in the Mid-Valley. Its purpose is to promote historical scholarship focused on the communities of the area.

The first edition features stories on:

•Cottonwoods Ballroom
• Preserving Public Spaces
• Salem School Names
• Oregon State Insane Asylum
• Willamette National Forest
• Marie Dorion and the St. Louis Cemetery
• Public Murals, Oregon State Capitol
• Grand Ronde Plank House

Print copies of the journal are available at the Willamette Heritage Center Museum Store and an online version is forthcoming.