Lumber Archives - Willamette Heritage Center

October 2012

Oregon Pulp & Paper Co.

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:56:36-07:00October 3rd, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: 1947, Business, Columbia River Paper Company, Ferry Street, Front Street, Log raft, Lumber, Mill Creek, Oregon Pulp and Paper Company, Paper, Riverfront Park, Salem, Salem Oregon, State Street, Trade Street, Willamette River, Willamette Slough|

We recently received a donation of a few aerial views of Salem in 1947 (2012.051). This image shows the old Oregon Pulp & Paper processing [...]

August 2005

Lumber
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Salem History Hub

Lumber

WHC Research Intern2022-10-13T19:09:14-07:00August 19th, 2005|Categories: Salem History Hub|Tags: Agriculture, Lumber, Salem, Salem History Hub|

The Lumber Industry You might say that lumber was Salem's first industry going back all the way to July 1840 when the Methodist missionaries [...]

Agriculture Overview

WHC Research Intern2022-09-28T16:20:02-07:00August 19th, 2005|Categories: Salem History Hub|Tags: Agriculture, cherries, Flax, Hops, Loganberries, Lumber, Marionberry, Overview, Salem, Salem History Hub, Wheat, wool|

Overview of Salem Agriculture Available, fertile land was the reason the pioneers chose to settle in the Willamette Valley. Lumber and farming became the [...]