Oregon150

String Ties

by Bill Hansell
Umatilla County Commissioner
Member of the Oregon 150 Board of Directors
Pendleton, OR
I was an eight grader at Athena Grade School when the 100th birthday of Oregon rolled around. While my memories are 50 years old, I recall several things about the centennial for me. I kept a scrap book, my grandmother embroidered [...]

Cenntennial Celebration Memories: a little girl lost

Judy Collins
Portland

by Judy Collins
Eugene, OR
I was five years old when Oregon celebrated her 100th anniversary of statehood. There was a big Expo up in Portland, just north of the Portland Meadows racetrack. My parents took all of us to see many things. When we got to the animal barns, I wanted to stay [...]

Finding Macksburg

Dorothy Blackcrow Mack
Macksburg, Oregon

by Dorothy Blackcrow Mack
Depoe Bay, OR
When I moved to Oregon in 1988 I went to the 200-strong Mack Reunion. All the Macks, except my father, had stayed in Oregon; I grew up in Geneva, New York, drawn ever westward through my life to find my pioneer ancestors who founded Macksburg.
“Been to Macksburg yet?” One of [...]

Arizona to Oregon

Lorien
Portland/Beaverton

by Lorien
Beaverton, OR
I was 10 and I had never seen so much green. We flew into PDX from Mesa, Arizona, and everything under me was rolling green that melted into grey clouds. I remember driving through the 26 tunnel towards Beaverton. One minute we were in the city, the next it was [...]

Grandkiddies Trip

Laurie Frederick
Sourthern & Coastal Oregon

The grandkiddies and I set out from Northern California to explore some sites from Southern Oregon to Newport on the coast. We stopped in Medford, stayed at the Riverside Inn in Grants Pass, viewed the 33 doors of Grants Pass, visited the Big Cats in Cave Junction before heading to the coast. We [...]

CELEBRATING OUR GRANDMOTHERS’ JOURNIES TO OREGON

Carla Tomlin Mundt, Laura Mundt, Tomlin Paolucci
Benton County to Umatilla County

by Carla Tomlin Mundt, Laura Mundt & Tomlin Paolucci
Albany, OR
THREE GENERATIONS OF OREGONIANS CELEBRATED THEIR GRANDMOTHERS’ ADVENTURES TO OREGON. IN JUNE WE WALKED THE THREE LOOPS AT THE OREGON TRAIL INTERPRETIVE PARK AT BLUE MOUNTAIN CROSSING. WE COULD SEE WHEEL TRACES MARKING THE PIONEER’S PASSAGE. WE FELT WE WERE WALKING ALONG WITH [...]

MY OREGON TERRITORIES

Dusty Hoesly
Clackamas County

by Dusty Hoesly
West Linn, OR
Jakob Hösli, one of my father’s ancestors, was a poor, Catholic farmer in Glarus, Switzerland. Like many Europeans of his time, unable to feed his family and desperate for hope, and perhaps a victim of Protestant purges, he emigrated to the New World. Anglicizing the family name once in [...]

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S ACCOUNT OF COMING ACROSS THE OREGON TRAIL

Dena Rowan
Oregon

by Dena Rowan
The Dalles, OR
This is my Grandmother’s journal of coming across the Oregon Trail, given to me by my Grandmother. It was printed in our local newspaper.
Halsey Hands Precious Trail Story, Union County, Oregon
Halsey Hands Precious Trail Story To Granddaughter
By Trish Yerges
2003
Sophia Ruth Throe
ELGIN - Written in fading pencil by the hand of Ruth [...]

OREGON BORN AND BRED

Teresa Carroll
Portland Area

by Teresa Carroll
Milwaukie, OR
I was born at Emanuel Hospital in November of 1956 and have lived in the Portland area my entire life. The ironic thing is that the same doctor who delivered me and my three brothers in 1955, 1956, 1959 and 1962, also delivered my son in January 1977. I have [...]

WOMEN OF THE OREGON TRAIL: FRANCIS BURRIS TANDY HARLOW

Rhonda Gill
Oregon Trail

by Rhonda Gill
Beaverton, OR
Francis Burris Tandy Harlow was the mother of six children when she and her husband, their children, her mother, brothers and sisters all set forth in May of 1850 from Independence, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail, headed for California. There were four Conestoga wagons in their party and one shiny black buggy [...]

GOD’S COUNTRY

Jesse M. Pedi
Grants Pass and Medford,Oregon

by Jesse M. Pedi
Medford, OR
Moving to Oregon from Arizona is the best thing we’ve done!! We hit the road about a year ago in a ‘72 Chevy Cheyenne truck with a full size camper and pulling a trailer FULLY loaded down with all of our worldly posessons. My girlfriend, her two daughters, and I left [...]