Two boilermakers killed enroute to Gales Creek, Gales Creek's Thornburgh property to host "extensive plantings" of narcissus bulbs to avoid European embargo of bulbs and more in this week's dispatched from history.
"Lectures - Drama - Music - Opera - Travel" was the billing for a five day program of a Chautauqua, a long-forgotten type of celebration popular in the U.S. and Forest Grove until the early 20th century.
"Twenty-eight great great grand children survive Mrs. Mary S. Jenkins Lilly who had lived at Gales Creek from 1814 until the time of her death," was the obituary for a pioneering Gales Creek woman. Today, her descendants include this newspaper publisher, the president of the Gales Creek Cemetery Ass
A farmer near Cornelius is killed in a ditch accident, controversy over a city sewer, and, well, feet are in this week's news from a century ago in Forest Grove!
"Memorial Day to See 'Closed' City," an 86 foot fir flag pole and more in this week's history column showcasing Forest Grove life from one hundred years ago!
In 1925, the Pacific University student newspaper caused a stir with an 8-page newspaper printed entirely in green ink. This and more in the news of a century ago!
