If Walls Could Talk – Pearson Family Story
It began with a simple home improvement project adding insulation to a bedroom closet wall to improve energy efficiency in an old 1920s farmhouse. [...]
September 2016
June 2016
Hermogenes B. Carbonell
Hermogenes Barba Carbonell senior portrait, Salem High School CLARION Annual, 1918. WHC 1997.021 Hermogenes Barba Carbonell was born on December 8, 1896 in [...]
Friendly Farm Restaurant – Jim & Marguerite Sumpter
The Daily Capital Journal newspaper dated November 5, 1938 stated it perfectly. “Some people have a way of always making you feel welcome. That's [...]
January 2015
Salem High School/North Salem High School History Resource
We were so pleased today to learn about the work the North Salem Alumni Association has been doing to preserve the history of Salem's oldest [...]
January 2014
First Donation of the New Year, 2014.001
This photo-postcard is the first donation to the WHC of the new year. It features a photograph of Rufus Boatwright in what he writes is [...]
April 2013
Japanese Girl Tells of Camp, 1942
This article was a front page news story in the Clarion (X2013.011.0022), the newspaper of Salem High School. It provides excerpts of a first [...]
January 2013
Yew Park School 100 Years Ago
Class at Park School, 1913. WHC Collections 1979.001.0005. As the Willamette Heritage Center prepares to host our third annual Heritage [...]
November 2012
Salem High School Class of 1917
We recently uncovered an open letter from Bryan Goodenough to the Salem High School Class of 1917 (X2012.027.0001). The letter, dated 1961, includes updates on [...]
August 2012
Related to Salem School History
Sometimes when I am going through files I come across something that would be really helpful in the right circumstances. This type-written document with no [...]
May 2012
No Name Title Goes to Salem As Season Ends, 1941
The following is an article that appeared in the Friday, March 14, 1941 edition of the Clarion, the newspaper for what was then Salem’s only [...]