Ellen Savage Goodenough Collection
Background Ellen Martha Savage was born 16 October 1895 in Salem, Oregon to John Claggett and Mary Catherine [Whelan] Savage. She was the [...]
March 2024
March 2019
Mystery Scrapbook
In 1983 a rather non-descript black photo album was donated to the Marion County Historical Society. Only a third of the pages were filled [...]
February 2019
Old Waconda
Over a hundred years before the fictional country of Wakanda appeared on the scene in Marvel comics, Marion county was home to the small, [...]
January 2015
Dear Rosie: WWII Era letter from Lowell Arthur Walling
by M.J.Nugent letter found in the Rosa Cole Patterson Collection 2002.028.0001 Long Beach, Calif July 22, 1941 Dear Rosie, I thought I’d drop you a [...]
August 2005
Electric Railway Waconda
Waconda, Hopmere And Quinaby Stations Looking ahead as we leave Concomly, we find we are approaching Waconda, Hopmere, Quinaby and Chemawa. The Oregon Electric [...]