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If Walls Could Talk – Pearson Family Story
If Walls Could Talk – Pearson Family Story

History Tidbits, People

If Walls Could Talk – Pearson Family Story

Heritage Center2020-12-29T14:08:33-08:00September 14th, 2016|Categories: History Tidbits, People|Tags: Alice Kivett, apples, berries, Cecil Pearson, cherries, civics textbook, David Pearson, Depression, Donald Raoul Coon, Dr. Henry J. Minthorn, Eber Pearson, Elton Coon, Ena Pearson, Ernest Pearson, Eugene, forestry, Friends Church, George Fox University, Gerald Pearson, Grocery store, Harry Pearson, home improvement project, Hope Chapel, Hope Chapel Sunday School, Hurl Pearson, Italian prunes, Ladd & Bush Quarterly, Methodist hymnal, Mildred Coon, Mission Street, Modern Algebra - Second Course, Murl Pearson, Oregon Land Company, Oregon State College, organ, Our Government - Oregon, Pacific College, pears, piano, Quaker, Ruth Pearson, Salem High School, Sarah Pearson, schoolbooks, Shurl Pearson, Tillamook Burn, Valley Motor Company|

It began with a simple home improvement project adding insulation to a bedroom closet wall to improve energy efficiency in an old 1920s farmhouse. [...]

Louis Westacott

Heritage Center2019-09-13T11:26:26-07:00March 6th, 2015|Categories: History Tidbits, People, Uncategorized|Tags: Ada Westacott, Astoria and Willamette Valley Railway Company, Beer, Brewery, Commercial Street, John Minto, John Westacott, Lewis Westacott, Louis Westacott, Mary E. Allen, Mary E. Janes, Mary E. Westacott, Mission Street, Obadiah Allen, Richard H. Westacott, Saginaw Street, Salem, Westacott and Sons, William G. Westacott|

by Sue Massé Louis Westacott. Photograph by H.S. Shuster bet. 1880-1889. Willamette Heritage Center Collections 85.17.001. Lewis Westacott (1812 England—1889 Oregon) [...]

Yew Park School 100 Years Ago

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:56:30-07:00January 9th, 2013|Categories: Photo Highlights|Tags: 1099 Mill Street, 1913, Berniece Swayzee, Dorelle Anderson, Doris Short, Elementary school, Elinor Dorrance, Erma Papenfus, Erma Victor, Genevieve Emmett, H.F. Durham;, James E. Dorrance, Mary A. Childers, Mary Eyre, McCoy (Polk County), Miller's Department Store, Mission Street, Nellie E. Robishaw, Park School, Paul Hardy, Paul Papenfus, Pauline Patterson, Salem, Salem High School, Sign Painter, Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, Thornton Gross, Virgil Vanderhoff, Wallace Bennett, Wilson Dorrance, Yew Park School, Zella Radcliff|

Class at Park School, 1913. WHC Collections 1979.001.0005. As the Willamette Heritage Center prepares to host our third annual Heritage [...]

Mission Street

September 2016

If Walls Could Talk – Pearson Family Story

If Walls Could Talk – Pearson Family Story

March 2015

Louis Westacott

January 2013

Yew Park School 100 Years Ago