Shearar’s Bridge Hotel at the Bridge
by Marie Barton
Portland, OR
My Great Grandparents, Elizabeth and John Taylor, ran the Shearar’s Bridge Hotel, stage stop and Post Office in the early part of the 1900’s. (John Taylor’s parents came to the USA about 1850 and ran the Gridley Hotel in California.)
The Shearar’s Bridge Hotel was built by the Sherar family about 1871, and I do not know when they stopped running it. I have the Post Office certificate that appoints my Great Grandmother as postmistress. Attached is one of the photographs of the hotel with my Grandmother Amelia Taylor and her Mother Elizabeth, et al, out front.
My Mother remembers getting splinters in her knees crawling across the old floors as a baby. She believes the Taylors made sausages to feed the people who stopped there.
The hotel had a fire, and I do not know when it was torn down. My Grandfather, Ernest Webb, met his first wife Amelia there in 1919 and he later had a ranch near Tygh Valley.
