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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W1_griggs-tryon-bldg_Pendleton-OR.html
This skinny little building (only 17' wide) was built by Frank Griggs and J. Tryon as a confectionary and cigar store. When the Rivoli Theatre opened up next door they changed the name of their little shop t the the "Rivoli Cigar Store and Fountai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23W0_frazier-building_Pendleton-OR.html
This simple, one story Commercial Italianate style building was constructed in 1889 by Robert and Mary Sargent who then sold half interest in the building to Frank Frazier in 1890. Frazier purchased the remaining interest in the building in 1926 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VY_columbia-hotel_Pendleton-OR.html
The Columbia Hotel was built in 1900 by John Seibert and William Roesch. The Seibert heirs owned the building until the late 1970's. The Columbia Hotel opened on the second floor with F.X. Schemp as the proprietor. It operated as a hotel for only …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VW_aura-goodwin-raley_Pendleton-OR.html
Aura Morse Goodwin Raley was born in Kennebec County, Maine. At age 15 she move to Wisconsin, and in 1846 she married Moses Goodwin. In 1853 the couple joined a wagon train to Oregon, where they settled north of Vancouver, Washington. In 1864 the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VT_union-pacific-depot_Pendleton-OR.html
The existing Depot building was built in 1909 by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. The depot building is primarily styled after architecture of the Mediterranean, as seen in the tiled hip roof, decorative roof support brackets and brick b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VS_matlock-brownfield-bldg_Pendleton-OR.html
Built in 1904 and exemplifying the Georgian architectural style, this building is 90' deep by 100' wide. There are five commercial bays with one still retaining the original cast iron columns. There were eleven evenly-spaced one-over-one double-hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VR_empire-meat-market_Pendleton-OR.html
In 1899, Henry Schwarz and his step brother Frank Greulich constructed a very ornate building for their business, the Empire Meat Market, which had previously been located in a wood frame building on Court Avenue.
Ownership passed to another bro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VJ_bowman-hotel_Pendleton-OR.html
In 1889, a wood framed "Bowman Hotel' was operated by Henry Bowman on this site. A mill race running along Frazer Avenue separated that first hotel from the original railroad depot building. That building either burned down or was razed and the va…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VI_byrd-school_Pendleton-OR.html
In 1879 Maria Byrd, a widow, donated the land for Umatilla County School District #21. The school was located 6.1 miles south of Pilot Rock, near the junction of West Birch Creek and the Yellow Jacket Road. Maria and her husband, Daniel Byrd, emig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23VA_pendleton-oregon-trail-kiosk_Pendleton-OR.html
(Six panels dealing with the Pendleton area portion of the Oregon Trail are found at this kiosk)
The Long Walk to Oregon
Contrary to popular belief Oregon Trail emigrants rarely took the reins while seated in their covered wagons. Wa…