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City of Salem
Salem, the capital of Oregon, is located at a crossroads of trade and travel on former prairie lands along the Willamette River. The city …
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Salem Brewery Association
The Salem Brewery Association, incorporated in 1903, was at one time the second largest brewery in Oregon and one of the largest breweries in the …
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Salem streetcar system
The first streetcars in Salem were horsecars that began running between the downtown business district and the train depot on January 15, 1889. Later that …
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Salem Pioneer Cemetery
Salem originated in 1841 as the second central station of the Oregon mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The town was platted in 1846 and …
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Salem's Colored School and Little Central
The first school open to African American students in Oregon—referred to as the Colored School—was founded in March 1867 by African American residents in Salem. …
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Salem - Astoria Military Road
As white settlement grew in the lower Willamette Valley during the mid-1800s, so did the desire for a road to the seaport of Astoria that …
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Salem Clique
Thomas Dryer, the first editor of the Oregonian, named the Salem Clique, whom he described in the Oregonian on March 13, 1852, as …
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Lee Mission Cemetery (Salem)
Lee Mission Cemetery on D Street in northeast Salem was formally constituted in 1869 on 4.77 acres of land deeded by former Methodist missionary Reverend …
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First Methodist Church (Salem)
Founded in 1841 by Jason Lee and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Oregon Mission to the Kalapuya people, the First Methodist Church in Salem …
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Mill Creek Archaeological Sites (Salem)
The modern City of Salem occupies a former Kalapuyan townsite known as Chemeketa, near the mouth of what is now Mill Creek (formerly Chemeketa Creek), …
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