Pioneer Cemetery
Pioneer Cemetery 1966, The graves of Asahel Bush family are located in Pioneer Cemetery on a hill overlooking the city. Taken in the [...]
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Old City Hall
Salem's Old City Hall Nothing remains now to mark its presence but a stone shaft and plaque on the southwest corner of Chemeketa and [...]
Mission Mill
Mission Mill Museum Thomas Kay Woolen Mill. Water Tower reads: Mission Mill Museum, WHC Collections 2007.001.1576 Located three blocks from the State [...]
Mission Mill Wool Making
Making Woolen Fabric at Mission Mill: A Step by Step Process Follow the "fleece to fabric" display that so graphically demonstrates 19th century technology [...]
Mission Mill Timeline
Mission Mill Timeline 1863: Thomas Lister Kay, founder of Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, comes to Oregon. 1889: Kay builds the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, [...]
Meyers Building
The Meyers Building A shop that shares the history of two buildings still stands as one of Salem's landmarks - - Whitlock's Vacuum and [...]
Marion Hotel
Marion Hotel: Over A Century Of Oregon History "Within its walls, the paid lobbyists and attorneys of corporate interests have framed measures which were [...]
Marion County Historical Society
Marion County Historical Society History In the late 1940s, when proposals were made to demolish both the building that housed Oregon's capitol at statehood [...]
Marion County Government
Early Marion County Government How Marion County Got Its Name An Island Most Salemites have a visual image of how their county appears on [...]
Local Government
Local Government Early Marion County Government Marion County Courthouse Old City Hall Pioneer Cemetery Poor Farm Salem Civic Center Salem Fire Department Salem Hospital [...]