Atilana Nayares Phillips
From Chihuahua to Dallas, Oregon in 1907 It sure seems like Atilana Nayares Phillips[1] had an unfair amount of sorrow in her life. Yet [...]
January 2024
September 2023
Dr. S.A. Davis Comes to Salem, 1890
It was likely a warm summer day when the steam locomotive huffed and hissed into the Salem railroad depot in 1890, and the travel [...]
June 2023
Saun Lee Lewis
Saun Lee Lewis, 1904. Cronise Studio Portrait. Photo Source: Oregon Historical Society Collections 0019G011 Saun Lee Lewis of Salem[1] Is a picture worth [...]
March 2023
Sgt. Major John W. Jackson and Caroline Woodson Jackson
Tombstone of John W. and Caroline Woodson Jackson in Hayesville Cemetery, Salem, Oregon. Photo taken February 2023. Photo by Kylie Pine Salem’s [...]
May 2022
Nora Anderson
Portrait of Nora L. Anderson. WHC Collections 1997.012 A major honor accorded to Nora Anderson during her lifetime was the dedication of the [...]
April 2022
Commemorating the life of CW3 Helen Ng Mun Tayne
Gravestone of Helen Ng Mun Tayne taken at Salem Pioneer Cemetery in Spring 2022. A century ago, the first part of April was [...]
November 2021
Mrs. J.W. Weatherford’s Hair Jewelry Business
Salem woman helped support herself making jewelry from human hair Source: 1880 Salem City Directory. I love city directories. Like phone books [...]
August 2021
Ernest B. Flake
Ernest Benjamin Flake. Willamette Heritage Center's Collections, 84.43.1.101.1 Entrepreneur E.B. Flake started a Salem Advertising Empire, Flower Shop and Pet [...]
July 2020
W. Carlton Smith Collection
Biography William Carlton Smith served in World War I for two years as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. From about 1902 [...]
May 2020
Mid-Valley Nisei Veterans of WWII
Go For Broke Was the motto of the 442nd Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, the most decorated unit for its size [...]