Sanborn Maps at OSL
The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society printed an article on Sanborn Maps found in the Oregon State Library collections in their [...]
December 2011
November 2011
Drill Regulations and Service Manual for Sanitary Troops, 1914
It’s about a week late for Veterans Day, but I found a copy of W. Carlton Smith’s Drill Regulations and Service Manual for Sanitary Troops: [...]
September 2005
Salvation Army Articles
Salvation Army Building Locations This articles is a compilation of the many past locations of the Salvation Army in Salem. Learn More Salvation Army [...]
August 2005
Streets
Salem Streets: Curious origins of width and angle Anderson Sundry Co., Portland Oregon Publishers, Color view of Liberty Street in downtown Salem. There [...]
Streetcars
Streetcars Salem's First Streetcar Line On January 1, 1889, the Rev. J. L. "Father" Parrish, last survivor of Salem's missionary founders, seized a broadaxe [...]
Streetcars Mule
Valuable Mule Electrocuted Stepped on a Trolley Wire on East State Street Property of a Wood Hauler. Efforts to secure an appraisal and settlement [...]
Streetcars Line
Salem's First Streetcar Line On January 1, 1889, the Rev. J. L. "Father" Parrish, last survivor of Salem's missionary founders, seized a broadaxe that [...]
Streetcar Horse
Runaway Team Frightened by Street Car Fred Feller, who lives on Dr. W. A. Cusick’s farm south of Salem, had a lively runaway on [...]
Steamboats
Salem's Steamboats 1910 c., Stern Wheel Riverboat proceeding down stream. Passing ferry at bank of river. Ferry crew watching riverboat., WHC Collections 0083.006.0017.025 For the [...]
Railroad Depots
Salem's Railroad Depots 1870 Depot The Oregon & California Railroad (O&C) reached Salem in October 1870. Although townspeople wanted the station located convenient to [...]