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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/HM27K9_elementary-schools_Corvallis-OR.html
The Episcopal Diocese of Oregon established the first school in the Central Park area. Dr. William Graham, a local physician, donated four lots on the block bounded by Madison, Monroe, Seventh, and Eighth Streets. He stipulated that the building h…
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/HM27JS_site-of-corvallis-public-schools_Corvallis-OR.html
Central ElementaryCorvallis Jr. HighCorvallis High School
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, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27HU_home-of-fred-j-porter_Corvallis-OR.html
Fred J. Porter was the great-grandson of Benton County pioneer, Johnson Mulkey. In the winter of 1845, Mulkey filed a land claim for 640 acres along Oak Creek, on the north side of Baldy Mountain. This was only a few months after Joseph Conant …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27FZ_the-durham-mill_Lake-Oswego-OR.html
On this site Oswego's first industry, a saw mill, was established in 1850 by Albert Alonzo Durham on this portion of his 637 acre Donation Land Grant which included "Old Town" and much of East Oswego. He advertised his new mill in the Oregonian's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27ES_old-town_Lake-Oswego-OR.html
Albert Alonzo Durham filed the first donation land claim here in 1850, naming the place Oswego after his New York home town. In 1864 John Corse Trullinger bought Durham's sawmill on Sucker Creek, and in 1866 this 87-acre portion of land, Trullinge…
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