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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27VE_the-incubator-house-poultry-building_Corvallis-OR.html
The Incubator House and Poultry Building stood at 26th and Jefferson on the OAC (Oregon Agricultural College, now OSU) campus until 1927, where they formed the headquarters of the Department of Poultry Husbandry.
The Incubator House was the Pou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27V4_river-transport_Corvallis-OR.html
The first steamboat to reach Corvallis was the sidewheeler Canemah in October of 1851. With this arrival, Corvallis joined Oregon's steamboat era, with tis stories of risk, profit, rivalries, mergers, heroics, innovation and disasters.
Corvalli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27V3_early-town-development_Corvallis-OR.html
The banks of the Willamette River were the focus of early town development. The town plat for Marysville was files on February on February 25, 1851, by Joseph C. Avery, using a portion of his land claim of 1845. The town included property from the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27V2_the-van-buren-street-bridge_Corvallis-OR.html
The Van Buren Street Bridge is Oregon's only remaining example of a movable bridge built using the rare pin-connected truss technology. The use of pins, or bolts, connecting each truss point allowed the bridge to be easily assembled on site after …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TD_benton-county-state-bank_Corvallis-OR.html
The Benton County State Bank building was dedicated on July 25, 1907. The bank, built on the ruins of a burned saloon, was representative of a period of growth and prosperity in Corvallis at the beginning of the 20th century.
Corvallis' populat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TC_the-corvallis-ferry_Corvallis-OR.html
Ferry service across the Willamette River was established by William F. Dixon, co-founder of Corvallis, in 1848. The service continued for 65 years until the opening of the Van Buren Street Bridge in 1913.
In the 1860s, the ferry was operated b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27L4_the-whiteside-theatre_Corvallis-OR.html
The Whiteside Theatre opened on November 9, 1922. That evening, the audience enjoyed the silent picture "The Old Homestead," accompanied by Lilian McElroy on a $20,000 two manual, double touch Wurlitzer organ. That organ was the largest,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27K6_the-corvallis-arts-center_Corvallis-OR.html
The Corvallis Arts Center building began its life as an Episcopal church, constructed in in 1889 just a block south of here. It was one of the products of the influential English emigrants who arrived in Benton County in the late 1800s under the l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27JX_madison-avenue_Corvallis-OR.html
In 1973, Dr. Robert MacVicar, president of Oregon State University, and Gene Hansen, president of the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, discusses the need to develop a stronger connection between the university and downtown, especially for pedestrian…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27I7_first-congregational-church_Corvallis-OR.html
The First Congregational Church was built here in 1917 to serve a congregation that had outgrown its original 1889 building at Third and Jefferson streets. Designed by architect Roy Dobell, a former instructor at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC, …