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a mabel independence zena and butteville still offer structures to whet the appetites of the historically curious the architecture enthusiast the tourist or the explorer whatever your interest may be there is no time like the springtime for getting out and touring the willamette valley and seeing its heritage for yourself originally published in the spring 2016 edition of willamette valley life pp 8 9 aurora oregon may 2017 at a jane kirkpatrick author signing historical event may 3 2024 0 the hoover minthorn house of the 46 presidents who have steered the helm of the united states only one has ever hailed from the pacific northwest the 31 st president of the united states herbert hoover was born in west branch iowa on august 10 th 1874 into modest beginnings not so much because his family was poor but because their beliefs honored humility herbert s father jesse hoover was a blacksmith turned farm store owner who passed away in 1880 his mother hulda randall minthorn hoover who was a school teacher prior to marrying jesse hoover died in 1884 orphaned at the age of 9 young bert was sent to live with his uncle and aunt dr john minthorn and wife laura in newberg oregon in november 1885 although his stay there was relatively brief a mere 3 years or so bertie and newberg managed to make permanent impressions upon each other today stands the historical house in newberg which provides an important history lesson to those who visit and before herbert hoover s death in 1964 he was able to cherish and share some of his fondest memories of the small town he had so long ago called home he wrote in his memoirs oregon lives in my mind for its gleaming wheat fields its abundant fruit its luxuriant forest vegetation and the fish in its mountain streams to step into its forests with their tangles of berry bushes their ferns their masses of wild flowers stirs up odors peculiar to oregon within these woods are never ending journeys of discovery his aunt laura s pear tree also left an indelible impression on bert it is said that he was so sick from overeating the pears which he loved so much that he never touched another the hoover minthorn house at 115 south river street in newberg is a museum maintained by the national society of the colonial dames of america in oregon this childhood home of herbert hoover was built in 1881 by jesse edwards founder of newberg and is the oldest residence in town the house can be classified as an 1880 s vernacular and has italianate detail in the trim under the eaves the minthorn family moved to salem in 1888 then hoover went off to study at stanford university in 1891 becoming such a successful mining engineer that he retired from mining in 1912 during world war 1 even before the united states entered the battle hoover devised a plan to feed the starving civilians of war torn france and belgium a plan that by the end of the war would save close to 10 million lives 2 million french and 7 million belgians this gargantuan humanitarian effort endeared hoover to many and he continued to be successful in government while secretary of commerce hoover often warned president calvin coolidge of the dangers of stock market speculation but as finances were booming hoover s warning went mostly unheeded it is while hoover served as president from 1929 to 1933 that the crash which he had foreseen occurred in such a degree that not even he could engineer a successful solution in 1947 nearly 20 years after hoover s term as president a childhood friend burt brown barker began to organize collect and restore hoover s boyhood home and furninshings to what is now known as the hoover minthorn house a museum where visitors can see hoover s actual bedroom set period pieces such as a baby cradle a wood stove a kitchen queen a well bucket a butter churn some of hoover s own fly fishing gear and more the hoover minthorn house was dedicated by herbert hoover on august 10 th 1955 hoover s 81 st birthday october 7 2023 2 camp adair from 1942 to 1945 this u s military s wwii cantonment near corvallis was oregon s second largest city after portland camp adair butting up against oregon s hwy 99w was a 56 000 acre training facility which housed upwards of 40 000 personnel the four infantry divisions which trained at camp adair the 70th 91st 96th and 104th distinguished themselves in battle in wwii three fought in the european theater one in the pacific the trailblazers 70th timberwolves 104th wild west 91st and deadeyes 96th each trained one year at camp adair two divisions at a time in 1947 the area was used to house pow s in 1950 the oregon department of fish and wildlife took possession of a good deal of the property and made it into the e e wilson wildlife area we can visit today a memorial garden is maintained to commemorate those who trained here and several blocks of cement a few buildings many paved roads even a brick chimney remain an aerial view of the e e wilson wildlife area august 24 2023 4 abigail scott duniway oregon s leading suffragist originally printed in our town silverton oregon in the second half of the nineteenth century a young woman who would later lead oregon s women voters to the polls came to the willamette valley by wagon train abigail jane scott 1834 1915 moved to lafayette in 1852 with her father and eight siblings her mother died along the trail not long afterward abigail moved to eola then called cincinnati to become the first schoolteacher of the new school her own formal education consisted of a few months of sporadic classroom attendance and an old speller that she brought with her along the oregon trail it is in eola where she met benjamin duniway whom she married on aug 2 1853 acquiring the name that she is known by today abigail scott duniway oregon s leading suffragist benjamin obtained 320 acres of donation land in the southern area of clackamas county near the molalla river where he raised livestock hunted game and grew wheat during that time donation land was granted to people moving to oregon who vouched to work the land for four years in this sparsely populated area abigail gave birth to their first child clara belle just shy of 10 months after their wedding date besides nursing and caring for her baby abigail s days were filled with endless tasks such as feeding pigs milking the cow churning butter making preserves pickling salting meat baking bread making soap and candles as well as laundering and cooking for the hired hands and the numerous bachelor ranchers to whom benjamin enjoyed exhibiting his wife for admiration though the days were long and wrought with duties abigail still found time to write stories which she read to the delight of their company not long after the difficult birth of their second child of six in 1856 the duniways home burned down and they moved in with family nearer to what has been referred to as silverton country by robert horace down in his 1926 book a history of the silverton country down includes the waldo hills parts of howell prairie north east to butte creek and the towns of mount angel scotts mills and monitor as silverton country it is here that abigail taught a term each at butte creek and needy schools being an avid reader of newspapers and novels coupled with her involvement in the community and having the experience of what she often termed a hardscabble life it is likely that abigail endowed her students who would be the future women voters of silverton country with not only standard educational exercises but also such controversial ideas as the importance of a woman having the rights to own property earn money marry wisely vote and maintain reproductive control of her own body in path breaking an autobiographical history of the equal suffrage movement in pacific coast states abigail describes her four years on the donation land as a hospitable neighborhood comprised chiefly of bachelors who found comfort in mobilizing at meal times at the homes of the few married men of the township i if not washing scrubbing churning or nursing the baby was preparing their meals in a lean to kitchen it is in silverton country that abigail scott duniway first felt the stirrings toward woman s suffrage taking on a new life as she began to work on what was to later become the first novel ever commercially printed in oregon captain gray s company or crossing the plains and living in oregon april 1859 though the book was not received by the general public with high regard in fact it basically flopped abigail was encouraged by the endeavor nonetheless going on to author the first woman suffrage proclamation ever written by a woman s hand 53 years later this later success led her to encourage others who may read her autobiography path breaking with the words do not yield to difficulties but rise above discouragements when their four years on the donation land were behind them the duniway s moved to lafayette where they met hard times in 1861 a flood ruined their harvest making it impossible for benjamin to pay on the notes he had signed for a friend in 1862 he was thrown from a team of horses and crushed by the wagon injuring him to the point where he was resigned to only light work for the rest of his life abigail again began teaching and 1864 the duniways moved to albany where abigail supported the family first as a teacher then as a successful shop owner selling millenary and notions in 1871 they moved to portland where she began the publication of a human rights newspaper the new northwest and thrust herself into a suffrage movement that would take her more than 40 years to succeed at and cost her more than 42 000 before beginning the new northwest abigail invited leading suffragists of the east to come to the northwest and give the cause an impetus after the paper was launched susan b anthony did indeed meet abigail scott duniway in portland and they traveled together to greet and speak to audiences in oregon washington territory and victoria british columbia they traveled by stagecoach steamer wagon carriage on horseback and by rail to meet anywhere a group could gather such as churches schools saloons and pool halls even after susan b anthony returned to her home in the east abigail maintained this sort of speaking schedule and was able to keep the new northwest in publication for 16 years despite the fact that her brother harvey scott was the editor of the oregonian and a staunch anti suffragist though silverton country has changed quite a bit in the past 150 years there are some things that abigail scott duniway may have had a part in inspiring among the citizens of the area people are still active in their community hard working expressive in the fine as well as tactile arts they can still be found helping their neighbors speaking their minds can be tenacious and they do not take their right to vote for granted abigail scott duniway oregon historical society march 9 2023 2 saint louis cemetery i recently told a friend about the saint louis church near gervais oregon the church now standing was built in 1880 to replace the original 1845 structure lost in a fire though the grave site sits on a rather small plot of land some of the gravestones are quite remarkable the names on the markers can be easily looked up by following this link february 22 2023 2 the second bathtub in yamhill county this house in yamhill is among eighty four structures in yamhill county listed in the national registe r of historic places it s a grand house located at 285 w 3rd street not only is the house famous for it s beautiful architecture following the second empire baroque style and hailing bragging rights to the second bathtub in the county it s also where beverly cleary beloved children s author spent the first 6 years of her life november 11 2021 0 hazel hall house and memorial park these are photos taken by robert h of yelp also this house and memorial park are not in the willamette valley but hazel hall was an amazing portland oregon woman february 7 1886 may 11 1924 three girls three school girls pass this way each day two of them go in the fluttery way of girls with all that girlhood buys but one goes with a dream in her eyes two of them have the eyes of girls whose hair is learning scorn of curls but the eyes of one are like wide doors opening out on misted shores and they will go as they go today on to the end of life s short way two will have what living buys and one will have the dream in her eyes two will die as many must and fitly dust will welcome dust but dust has nothing to do with one she dies as soon as her dream is don sic by 1910 the city of portland oregon was becoming a lively city of commerce and community a bustling population of well over 207 000 established it as the largest city in the pacific northwest from the port side along the ocean accessible columbia river to the west bank of the roaring willamette people spent their days working in factories window shopping strolling hand in hand riding trolleys and bustling about in all the ways that folks of large cities do though portland was host to much lively activity and trade young hazel hall could not take part in any of it being confined to a wheelchair since she was 12 she sat in the upper room of her home watching life in its myriad of shapes and sizes parade before her having limited mobility hazel could not stand up to peer out her window so she fashioned a hand mirror in such a way as to be able to view the streets below in the reflection of the glass hazel hall was born on february 7 1886 in st paul minnesota to montgomery and mary garland hall she had two sisters ruth and lulu the family moved to portland oregon when hazel was yet a toddler though young hazel romped and played just as exuberantly as any other child until the age of 12 when she fell ill with scarlet fever and was stricken lame ever afterward binding her to a wheelchair not to be discouraged by her strict confinement hazel spent her days under the light of her window sewing and adorning fine linens and bridal robes baby clothes lingerie bishop s cuffs and christening gowns these items were so beautifully embroidered that she became one of the favorite seamstresses of many of portland s social elite in the west hills bringing her money enough for her to earn her keep hazel s sister ruth a librarian in the portland school district borrowed numerous books for hazel to read from classics to science hazel read everything that her sister brought home for her but developed a particular interest in poetry emily dickinson who passed away the same year of hazel s birth was counted among her favorite poets along with robert frost and edna st vincent millay hazel had always occupied herself by writing and by the age of 30 she accomplished being published in the boston evening transcript her poem to an english sparrow is a musical piece of rhyme and meter and deep in feeling the life of the poem resembles the life of a sewing needle which hall...