Fairfield
Fairfield, Marion County, Oregon Fairfield refers to a community, post office, steamship landing and voting/census precinct located northwest of St. Louis, Marion, Oregon. [...]
October 2023
June 2022
Marion County School Districts
Marion County, Oregon had at one time at least 144 different public school districts. These districts ranged in size from a single one-room school [...]
April 2019
Bethany
Historic twin communities of Bethany and Silverton. WHC 2007.072.0002 Along the banks of Silver Creek in the late 1840s two twin communities [...]
February 2019
Old Waconda
Over a hundred years before the fictional country of Wakanda appeared on the scene in Marvel comics, Marion county was home to the small, [...]
October 2018
Shaw
Main road through Shaw, Oregon circa 1909. Left to right, Schomus General Store, Waldo Hills Hotel and the Catholic church. The Methodist church is [...]
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 [...]
February 2018
Butteville
View of Butteville from across the Willamette River, circa 1910. WHC 0082.002.0022.059 On a beautiful February day last week, I took a [...]
March 2016
A Sense of Place: Halls Ferry
Rail station at Hall's Ferry in 1915. It provided a connection between the Oregon Electric Railway and the ferry. [...]