Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon Dating from 1903, and published by the Chapman Publishing Company is a short history of important people in Oregon history much...
Capitol’s “Who’s Who” For Arizona – 1953 *Note – this is only an excerpt from Capitol’s “Who’s Who” For Oregon – 1953. It included a few other states that I’ve...
Irving, Ghost town in Eugene Oregon Once it’s own town, it was one of several small communities in what was known as the River Road Neighborhood. Now part of the...
Sprague Cemetery – Clackamas County, Oregon The Sprague Cemetery is one of those frustratingly hard to research cemeteries. Like many small, family cemeteries created in the early days of settlement,...
Ghost Town of Airlie Oregon Airlie was the southern-most station of the narrow gauge railroad owned by the Oregon Railway Company, LTD. It was named for the Earl of Airlie...
This is the second of two versions of Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography. This one was updated and published in 1954 by the Skamania Historical Society. Read the first version here...
Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington Traveling through Skamania County Recently, and stopping at the excellent Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, revealed a number of interesting local history connections. One of...
Iman Cemetery The Iman Cemetery is in Stevenson Washington. It was established near the North East Corner of the Iman Donation Land Claim in 1901 as the family plot of...
Unity Covered Bridge Here is an awesome vintage photo from the 1950’s of the Unity Covered Bridge between Fall Creek and Lowell. In 1890, the first bridge across Fall Creek...
USS Benton County (LST-263) was one of several Landing ships built during WWII, named after locations in the Pacific Northwest. Like the rest of the LST, it wasn’t directly named...
CSS Oregon 1846-1861 The CSS Oregon was a wooden side paddle wheel steamer built in New York City in 1846 for the Mobile Mail Line. She had a twin named...
USS Chinook I (SP-644) 1917-1918 I have not been able to find any pictures of this boat. If you happen to have one, please let me know below. The USS...