Tag: Tualatin History
Why farmers once blew up a Tualatin River dam
New book details revolt against Oregon Iron & Steel Company
Some stories are so unbelievable that they deserve to be told over and over. One...
Living Legends: Yvonne Addington
Member of a 1900s Tualatin immigrant family. Wife of Jim Addington, mother of Maxine and Randy and grandmother of Leah, Audrey and Preston. The...
Winona Grange 125th Year Celebration Postponed
The coronavirus has caused Winona Grange to postpone its 125th anniversary party originally scheduled for the date of its first meeting in 1895. The...
A Tribute to Mayor Lou Ogden
By Yvonne Addington for Tualatin Life
Thank you for inviting me to pay tribute to Mayor Lou Ogden for 26 years of volunteer service to...
Harvest Time memories
Jack Wanker’s Sauerkraut Recipe plus his advice on how to get along in politics
Harvest time and pumpkin celebrations are almost over but...
Tualatin Mountain Range – Lost in Oregon
When were you last in the Tualatin Mountain Range?
The Tualatin Mountain Range is one of the busiest places in Oregon but not many of...
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of...
BY LOYCE MARTINAZZI
The Great Depression of 1929 to 1939 couldn’t have come at a worse time for the village of Tualatin. The sawmill...
Music was always important at Tualatin’s Winona Grange
Tualatin’s soil is rich and deep and generally well suited for farming due to the giant ice age floods that left behind topsoil from...
Tualatin’s First Farmer’s Market
George Saum Jr. poses beside his produce stand on Borland Road across the street and just east of Bridgeport School. Prices for produce were...
Who Cleared Your Land?
In 1852, young Jimmy Luster, a single man, settled on 160 acres of land in Section 2S,1W in Section 26. After his untimely death...
