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Heritage Center2024-03-22T12:30:52-07:00February 19th, 2018|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, Marion County Communities|Tags: Alanson Beers, Alexis Aubichon, Butteville, Butteville Store, Champoeg, French Prairie, Friends of Historic Butteville, Ft. Vancouver, George Abernathy, Hudson Bay Company, Joel Palmer, John McCadden, Jos. LaForte, La Butte, La Roque, Obeshaw's Landing, Oregon & California Railroad, Oregon Parks & Recreation Department, Oxford, steamboat landing, Sternwheeler, The Buttes, W.H. Rees, Willamette & Pacific Railroad, Willamette River, Willamette Settlement|

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 [...]

Wentz Family – Ghost Story

Heritage Center2024-04-10T19:31:59-07:00October 29th, 2016|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, People|Tags: 21st Infantry, Ann Potter, Benton County, Cemetery, Civil War, Civil War Veteran, Cloverdale Rd., D.M. Morris, eleven children, Enchanted Way, Ft. Hall, German immigrant, Ghost, Hudson Bay Company, Idaho, Lewis Wentz, Mormon wagon train, Ohio 5th Co. Cavalry, Oregon Burial Site Guide, Oregon Trail, pioneer woman, Salt Lake City, trading post, Willamette Valley Vineyards, William Johnston|

The story played out in a brief succession of news articles in 1892. Eyewitness accounts. Ghost siting reported on the Wentz farm about 10 [...]

Thomas Cox

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:55:42-07:00May 4th, 2016|Categories: History Tidbits, People, Uncategorized|Tags: ammunition, Applegates, apples, Barlow Trail, Beaver Money, beef, Blue Mountains, calico, carding mill, Cascade Range, Cayuse conflict, Cayuse Indians, Chemawa Indians, Chemeketa Indians, Chemeketa St., Court St., Cox Cemetery, Cox's store, Cox’s Golden Cling, custom-made wagons, Daniel Waldo, David Leslie, Donation Land Claim, Dr. John McLoughlin, Elias Brown, first post office, first postmaster, first store in Salem, first woolen mill on West Coast, Fort Hall Route, fruits, general store, gold dust, grist mill, Hudson Bay Company, Indians, John Boon, John Minto, Joseph Cox, Joseph Watt, Joseph Wilson, L.H. Judson, Laurel Hill, Lewis Judson house, Liberty St., Looneys, Macleans, Martha Cox, measles, Missouri, Mt. Hood, Ohio, Oregon City, Oregon Trail, pack horses, Pendleton, Peter Polley, President James Polk, provisional government, Rev. J.L. Parrish, rock salt, Salem, sheep husbandry, Silverton, slabs of molasses, Snake River country, spelling books, Store, sweat houses, textile industry, Thomas Cox, Turner Crump, variety of peach, Virginia, W.H. Hillson, wheat as currency, Whitman Massacre, Willamette Woolen Manufacturing Mill, William Cox, William Cox and Co., William H. Rector, William Rector|

Thomas Cox 0999.726 Readers should feel free to use information from this article, however credit must be given to the Willamette Heritage Center [...]

Hudson Bay Company

February 2018

Butteville

Butteville

October 2016

Wentz Family – Ghost Story

Wentz Family – Ghost Story

May 2016

Thomas Cox

Thomas Cox