The East Linn Museum Society celebrated its 25th anniversary Sunday afternoon with an open house, cake and punch.
Martha Steinbacher related the history of the museum:
Pioneers came to the Sweet home Valley as early as 1852 although there is evidence of fur trappers in the area as early as 1802.
In September 1852, the Ames, Pickens, Wiley and Gilliland families came. The Russell, Humphreys and Morris families came later in the same year. The…