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Pony Express & Stagecoach Routes

Susan Reed
Northeastern Oregon

by Susan Reed
Beaverton, OR
While growing up in Eastern Oregon there were quite a few stories about the Pony Express coming through there. My dad, Harry D. Proudfoot Jr., had a place named Sarvis Springs Ranch. It was 40 mi from Pendleton, 30 mi from Heppner, and 20 mi from Hermiston on Butter Creek. Our address [...]

Summer Days on the Farm

Susan Wheeler Woods
Lebanon, OR

by Susan Wheeler Woods
Salem, OR
I was born soon after my father returned from World War II, the second of 10 children. We lived on a farm that our ancestors had homesteaded in 1853. As soon as I could walk, I got to help bottle-feed the orphan lambs in the barn. Soon, I [...]

Merwyn Richert’s Oregon Story

Shared with Oregon 150 at the 2009 Oregon State Fair
Merwyn Richert
Salem, OR
Merwyn Richert’s Oregon Story

Larry and Dawn Monagon’s Oregon Story

Shared with Oregon 150 at the 2009 Oregon State Fair
Larry and Dawn Monagon
Keizer, OR
Larry and Dawn Monagon’s Oregon Story

Susie Kreder’s Oregon Story

Shared with Oregon 150 at the 2009 Oregon State Fair
Susie Kreder
Dayton, OR
Susie Kreder’s Oregon Story

My Life On A Farm

Nolan Coulter
Toledo,OR

by Nolan Coulter
Toledo, OR
I live in a small town, in Toledo, Oregon. The small town is a community of loggers and mill workers at Georgia Pacific. My family members are hunters. We like to fish for trout in the Siletz River, and the Big Elk, in Harlan.
We hay in the summer [...]

Grandpa’s Jackknife

Gentry Cutsforth
Rural Oregon

by Gentry Cutsforth
Canby, OR
Early Oregon farm stories tell us of all the wonderful things Grandma did with her long apron. Useful things, like gathering eggs, vegetables and kindling chips, dusting and polishing the furniture, using it as a pot holder, wiping the baby’s nose, and shooing the pigs out [...]

Grape Lane Poultry Farm, An Original Oregon Pioneer Farm

Jayne Miller
Turner, OR

by Jayne Miller
Jefferson, OR

Grape Lane Poultry Farm is an original Oregon Pioneer Farm settled first by the Calapulia and next by William Frazer on the first wagon train to Oregon in 1843. In 1901 the first permitted building was constructed. A rare and still standing 2-story brooder chicken house. In 1915 my [...]