Forest Grove
1925 in Forest Grove: Forest Grove generated own electricity at 'low cost'
Did you know Forest Grove had its own power plant in 1925?
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Friends of Historic Forest Grove place 100th plaque on Tip Top Building
The Tip Top building tipped the group that tacks plaques to historic homes and buildings to top triple digits in total tributes at a recent ceremony in downtown Forest Grove.
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1925 in Forest Grove: Forest Grove man 'critically ill from lockjaw'
A Forest Grove man is critically ill from lockjaw (tetanus), city cleanup is a success, and a letter writer urges residents to put up "bird houses and squirrel dens" in 1925.
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1925 in Forest Grove: 'Great Holstein Cow Goes to Milky Way'
Move over, Li'l Sebastian: In 1925, the world mourned the loss of a famed Holstein cow.
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1925 in Forest Grove: 'Let us not resort to lawless means to enforce law'
A state senator visited Forest Grove in 1925 and "literally picked the flesh from the bones" of the governor and the head of the Oregon Anti-Saloon league in a fiery Prohibition-era speech to the Forest Grove Chamber of Commerce.
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1925 in Forest Grove: Fossil beds near Dilley, famed fire chief leaves for Washington job
A famed fire chief quits Forest Grove for Washington, the famed Mazamas trek from Dilley to find fossils, and the city plans to enclose Council Creek in the news of a century ago.
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Film featuring 1912 Pendleton Round-Up champion screens in Forest Grove in 1925
What were Forest Grove residents watching a century ago? Hoot Gibson won the all-around championship at the Pendleton Round-Up in the early days of his acting career in 1912. In 1925, he was the leading man for a film screening at the Star Theater (now Theatre in the Grove).
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Forest Grove's dreams of an armory axed by governor's veto in 1925
Forest Grove's dreams of an armory axed by governor's veto, a war hero visits Forest Grove and more in 1925.
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'Frivolous Sal' played at the Star Theater, a pioneer read an early history: Forest Grove on February 26, 1925
'Frivolous Sal' played at the Star Theater, a pioneer read an early history: Forest Grove on February 26, 1925
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Crocodiles, standardized fire hydrants, and a new band: Forest Grove on February 19, 1925
Crocodiles in Forest Grove? Not quite, but they were in the newspaper a century ago.
Real Estate
One of the most historic homes in Forest Grove is for sale
Built around 1873 for Benjamin Cornelius Jr., who was later killed in a gunfight, a venerable Forest Grove home is for sale for $610,000.
History
Prohibition, Poetry and Pacific University: Forest Grove on February 12, 1925
1925: Moonshiners roamed the hills outside Forest Grove. The city pondered building a National Guard armory. Now-lost silent films played at the Star Theater. Step into Forest Grove history from the lens of newspaper archives of the day.