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October 2016

Fischer Flour Mill
Fischer Flour Mill

Community Memories, History Tidbits, People

Fischer Flour Mill

Heritage Center2024-04-10T19:34:11-07:00October 14th, 2016|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, People|Tags: Alaska, Belcrest Memorial Park, California, Corvallis, Crown FLour, Depression, Europe, Fischer Flouring Mill, flour bags, Henry Fischer, Japan, Keizer, L.H. Fischer, long johns, Louis Henry Fischer, National Register of Historic Places, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Omaha, Oregon Milling Company, Oregon Quilt Project, Osaki, Pan-American Exposition, Philipines, Phyllis Huffman, Portland Business College, Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, provenance, Quiltopia, Red and White, Rolland Huffman, Silver Creek, Silverton, Silverton Commercial Historic District, Silverton Country Historical Society, Silverton Public Library, South America, Southern Pacific depot, Trans-Mississippi Fair, Willamette Cherry Grower, wool shirts, World War I|

A simple quilt pieced from the wool shirts and long johns in a housewife’s scrap bag. The backing made from re-purposed flour bags with [...]

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August 2013

Rickey School Souvenir, 1996.006.0001

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:56:28-07:00August 11th, 2013|Categories: Artifact Spotlight, History Tidbits|Tags: 1898, 1899, B.B. Gesner, Education, G.W. Jones, J.B. Ashby, J.O. Estes, L.H. Lewis, Marion County Superintendent of Education, Oregon, Philipines, Philippine-American War, Rickey, Rickey School, Schools|

This school souvenir for the old Rickey School was cute to look at, but became much more interesting after reading the note at the very [...]

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