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Martin Family Photograph Collection
Martin Family Photograph Collection

Collections Guide

Martin Family Photograph Collection

Heritage Center2024-04-03T11:01:50-07:00October 11th, 2022|Categories: Collections Guide|Tags: Amy Martin, Francis Martin, Jessie Martin, Leslie Junior High, Michigan, Muskegon, Oregon, Rosa Martin, Rose Cleantha Blood, Salem, Scapoose, Washington, Willamette University, William Martin, Yew Park School|

Background The William and Rose Cleantha [Blood] Martin family originated in Muskegon Michigan. They emigrated to Oregon in 1885 first living in Dayton, [...]

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Samuel E. Tolman – Woodmen of the World Headstone
Samuel E. Tolman – Woodmen of the World Headstone

History Tidbits, People

Samuel E. Tolman – Woodmen of the World Headstone

Heritage Center2020-12-29T18:44:47-08:00August 20th, 2018|Categories: History Tidbits, People|Tags: Belle Passi cemetery, California Voter Registration records, death benefit, Elizabeth Tolman, Elizabeth Walker, Emma Tolman, fraternal society, Hood River, Idlewilde Cemetery, insurance, J.B. Smith, Joseph Cullen Root, Massachussetts, Mina Hoyt, Nebraska, Nellie Tolman, Omaha, Phebe Ann Forbis, Portland, Portsmouth, Samuel E. Tolman, San Francisco, Stanley Arnold, Train, Walla Walla, Washington, William Edgar Tolman, Woodmen of the World|

There is something so poignant about sifting thru a probate packet at the Oregon State Archives. The remainders of a human life reduced to [...]

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Mrs. P.E. Fullerton – Bedspread Points to Early 20th Century Salem Family
Mrs. P.E. Fullerton – Bedspread Points to Early 20th Century Salem Family

History Tidbits, People

Mrs. P.E. Fullerton – Bedspread Points to Early 20th Century Salem Family

Heritage Center2020-12-29T14:46:52-08:00May 21st, 2017|Categories: History Tidbits, People|Tags: 270 N. Commercial St., 279 Commercial St., 291 Commercial St., Boise, Burns, Capital Drug, Charles Burtnett, Donald Petram, Farmer's Cider and Vinegar Works, First National Bank building, Hancock County, hydraulic press, Idaho, Iowa, Jackson township, lavatory, Levi Miller, Lillian Fullerton, McGilchrist Building, Millinery Factory, Millinery Store, Montana, Mrs. C.M. Hilke, Mrs. P.E. Fullerton, Newport, North Commercial St., Ohio, Petram, Prentiss Eben Fullerton, Prineville, Pullman, The Dalles, wash room, Washington, Woolworths, Yellowstone Park, zinc block molds|

Coverlet donated by the Petram family.Willamette Heritage Center 2016.064.0001 At 162 years old, the blue and white coverlet was in remarkably good [...]

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January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy
January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy

Community Memories, History Tidbits, People, Uncategorized

January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy

Heritage Center2020-12-28T20:55:25-08:00January 14th, 2017|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, People, Uncategorized|Tags: 1920s, 1942, 1943, Archie A. Cook, Archie Cook, bands, Belle Passi cemetery, cables, Capital Journal, Carmelita Grooms, Charles C. Hansen, chief highway engineer, circuit, David Eyre, debris, dynamite, Edgewater St., Edwin Cook, engineers, Eva Jean Green, flood of 1890, Flooding, Governor Charles A. Sprague, Helen Frentz, Highway 22, Jack, Jack Bell and His Melody Pirates, Jimmy, Joseph G. Mauer, Joseph J. Lambrecht, Kansas, La Center, Laura Wilt, life-belts, Marion-Polk county bridge, Mary Kammer, Mellow Moon, Mellow Moon Dance Hall, Mellow Moon Pavilion, Mellow Moon Skating Rink, Michael Mauer, Mills and Albright, moonshine, New Year's Eve, ODOT, orchestra, Oregon, Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Pulp & Paper, Oregon Statesman, R.H. Baldock, river gauge, river level, Russian, Salem Electric, section foreman helper, Shaw, St. Mary Catholic cemetery, state highway crew, Stayton, Topeka, truck driver, Walter Gerth, Washington, West Salem, Westside Station Restaurant and Nightclub, Willamette River, Woodburn|

Mellow Moon Pavilion was built the summer of 1925 by owners Mills and Albright at the west end of the Marion-Polk county bridge in [...]

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October 2022

Martin Family Photograph Collection

Martin Family Photograph Collection

August 2018

Samuel E. Tolman – Woodmen of the World Headstone

Samuel E. Tolman – Woodmen of the World Headstone

May 2017

Mrs. P.E. Fullerton – Bedspread Points to Early 20th Century Salem Family

Mrs. P.E. Fullerton – Bedspread Points to Early 20th Century Salem Family

January 2017

January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy

January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy