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Willamette Heritage Center is a museum in Salem, Oregon.The five-acre site features several structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places including the Thomas Kay woolen mill, [1] the Jason Lee House, [2] Methodist Parsonage, [3] John D. Boon House, the Pleasant Grove (Condit) Church.
Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos (January 31, 1939 – March 28, 2006) was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
Hallie Ford was one of the founders of the Ford Family Foundation. She graduated from East Central University in Oklahoma and moved to Oregon after graduation. [41] Ford became a trustee at Willamette University in 1975. [41] She was the wife of Kenneth W. Ford and they built Roseburg Forest Products Company in Roseburg, Oregon, beginning in 1936.
Sally Bush, daughter of Asahel Bush and Eugenia (Zieber)Born in Salem, Bush was the third of their four children. When she was almost three years old, her mother died of tuberculosis in 1863. [2] [3] She attended Sacred Heart Academy in Salem, and graduated from high school from Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The pools were for health and exercise, and used by male and female swimmers on alternate days. The outdoor pools were surrounded by a high wall to provide privacy. Women and girls wore bathing costumes, men and boys usually went without. The YMCA pools, which charged a fee and excluded women, were used by middle-class swimmers.
Lorene Bartell celebrated her 95 th birthday Tuesday, sharing a home-cooked meal with family in northeast Salem.. Her only other wish was to give away 95 seedlings harvested from a 50-foot-tall ...
Roughly a 20-mile linear section of the old railroad grade between Idanha and the Cascade Range summit (See also Linn and Jefferson counties.) 44°27′10″N 121°53′57″W / 44.452778°N 121.899167°W / 44.452778; -121.899167 ( Oregon Pacific Railroad Linear Historic