Bridges
Salem's Bridges Photo of drawing: "Free Bridge at Salem, Oregon, built in 1886".Steel truss structure on concrete piers, crossing Willamette River.Stern Wheel Riverboat [...]
August 2005
Airport
Salem's McNary Airport "A good airport to any city means as much in this day of aerial travel supremacy as a first-class barber to [...]
West Salem
West Salem History West Salem is located in Polk County on the west bank of the Willamette River just opposite the original town site [...]
Walton Guest House
Walton Guest House "A home away from home" is what the Walton Guest House provides those out of the Salem-Keizer area who are patients, [...]
United Methodist Church
First United Methodist Church Following the precept of John Wesley to take the gospel to people everywhere, the Methodist Foreign Missionary Society sent a [...]
Theater History
Salem's Theatrical History "Those who gathered in Sandy Burns' North Star Saloon in 1870 to witness the first set of hurdy-girls ever brought to [...]
State Penitentiary
Oregon State Penitentiary Prior to 1866, Oregon convicts were housed in the prison in Portland. On May 16th of that year they were transferred [...]
State Library
Oregon State Library The mission of the Oregon State Library is to promote the establishment, development, and support of library services to the people [...]
State Hospital
Oregon State Hospital (formerly the State Insane Asylum) Oregon State Hospital, WHC Collections 1984.053.0214 As early as 1862 Governor Addison Gibbs recommended [...]
State Government
State Government Fairview Training Center (Oregon State Institute for the Feeble Minded) Glen Oaks Orphanage Reform School School for the Blind School for the [...]