Sweet Home / Area History
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From Our Files - September 20, 2023 Edition
Sept. 20, 1973 Willamette Industries Logging Division office was burglarized. A portable Sony AM radio worth $25 was stolen along with a metal box containing an unknown number of stamps and $2.50 in...
From Our Files - September 16, 2023 Edition
Sept. 6, 1973 Deputies are investigating the death of John Wesley Place, 15, who was found in the back seat of a vehicle behind My Tavern Place. The boy lived in a residence at the same location....
From Our Files - August 30, 2023 Edition
Aug. 30, 1973 Kitty Thornton's buffalo, Sally, got loose and roamed the streets in the middle of the night. It was corralled outside the city on 10th Avenue with the help of city police, state police...
From Our Files - August 23 Edition
Aug. 23, 1973 Mark Miner shot himself in the foot while practicing quick draws with a .22 pistol. After being treated at the hospital, it was reported the bullet did not hit any bones. A billboard...
From Our Files - August 16, 2023 Edition
Aug. 16, 1973 E.L. "Doc" Wright likes to fool around with a gold pan in Quartzville Creek and now he gets to show his hobby to the world. He will star in a pilot show, "Treasure Probe Unlimited,"...
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FROM OUR FILES 7/26/23 Edition
July 26, 1973 Arlo Gustaf Nordendahl died after falling off a 25-foot cliff in Cascadia State Park. Early investigation revealed Nordendahl was "horseplaying" with Harold F. Maier on a bluff when...
From Our Files 7/19/23 Edition
July 19, 1973 A petition was filed asking the state Health Division and Board of Health to initiate annexation of the Foster-Midway area to the City of Sweet Home. The petition, circulated by R.E....
Grandpa Philpott was the oldest living blacksmith around, when I was growing up
The sign on the front of the blacksmith shop next to the East Linn Museum reads: "Blacksmith, J. Philpott, Prop. Est. 1880." It was fun to watch him take an old chair, that anyone of us would just...
It was a turbulant beginningSweet Home Union High School - now SHHS
Former ELMS director Sweet Home's first high school started in Gilliland in 1910, then grew to Union High School #2 when dedicated in 1935. Sweet Home High School (SHHS) is now part of an expanded Swe...
Early settlers overcome daunting problems
Former director East Linn Museum In 1843 a settler wrote, "At any public gathering it was easy to distinguish the new from the old settler. They were lank, lean, hungry and tough. We were ruddy, ragged and rough. They were dressed in broadcloth,...
General Sweet Home History...
Former Director East Linn Museum The history of Sweet Home dates back to 1851, but the real story of that city did not start until April 1, 1932, when the first freight train pulled up at the Oregon...
It was a turbulant beginning Sweet Home Union High School - now SHHS
Former ELMS director Sweet Home's first high school started in Gilliland in 1910, then grew to Union High School #2 when dedicated in 1935. Sweet Home High School (SHHS) is now part of an expanded Swe...
Grandpa Philpott was the oldest living blacksmith around, when I was growing up
The sign on the front of the blacksmith shop next to the East Linn Museum reads: "Blacksmith, J. Philpott, Prop. Est. 1880." It was fun to watch him take an old chair, that anyone of us would just...
Sweet Home, as it was in 1910
Former Director East Linn Museum I thought you might like to know what Sweet Home was like in the early years. Following is a clipping from a 1910 newspaper: Sweet Home, the mountain town, is located 16 miles from Lebanon on the Willamette Valley...
Early settlers overcome daunting problems
Former director East Linn Museum In 1843 a settler wrote, "At any public gathering it was easy to distinguish the new from the old settler. They were lank, lean, hungry and tough. We were ruddy,...
Where did Sweet Home get its name?
Former Director East Linn Museum In 1847 the Lowell Ames family first filed donation land claims for land that would eventually become Sweet Home, Oregon. The father,his six sons and one daughter, Sweet Home's first settlers, each took out property c...
