Canneries
Salem's Canneries "At harvest time there could be so many sacks of beans waiting to be processed that Marion Square Park would be used [...]
August 2005
Bishop’s Store
Bishop's Store Ben Maxwell, 1939,A view, in 1939,of the west side of Liberty Street N. taken from Court Street toward the southwest. The [...]
Bible Book House
Bible Book House Main Store 1870 Lana Avenue Salem, Or 97303-3197 Phone: (503) 581-1469 South Store 4566 Commercial St. SE Salem, Or Phone: (503) [...]
Belcrest Memorial Cemetery Park
Belcrest Memorial Park Cemetery 1295 Browning Ave S Salem, Or 97302 Phone: (503) 581-8451 Robert McEwan, Belcrest Memorial Park - 625 Browning Ave., [...]
Arbuckle Costic Architects
Arbuckle Costic Architects Arbuckle Costic Architects 363 State Street Salem, Or 97301 Phone: (503) 581-4114 Fax: (503) 581-3655 Arbuckle Costic Architects website: accoac.com Arbuckle [...]
Agriculture Overview
Overview of Salem Agriculture Available, fertile land was the reason the pioneers chose to settle in the Willamette Valley. Lumber and farming became the [...]
State Hospital Poisoning
467 Poisoned at Oregon State Hospital November 18, 1942 One of the most tragic incidents in Salem’s history was the poisoning of nearly 500 [...]
Sesquicentennial
Salem Sesquicentennial: 1840/1841 to 1990/1991 1991, Sesquicentennial Parade, WHC Collections 2011.037.1141 Salem’s Sesquicentennial Celebration observed the 150th anniversary of the founding of [...]
Salem’s Name
How Did Salem Get its Name Salem might have avoided being one of the many cities of the same name in the United States [...]
Pollution
Salem's Pollution Problem (1929) Conventional wisdom traces the environmental movement in the United States Congressional passage of the Clean Air Act in 1963, and [...]