Salem Heritage Network
The barn of the Leslie family was the oldest structure on the Bush property before it burned in the 1960s. Rebuilt and used by Salem Art Association for offices, art gallery and gift shop, it is a valuable part of our Salem heritage. Here it is, open for business, through our recent Christmas holiday...
In early 2010 the city of Salem will be 150 years old. Instead of celebrating the day a charter was signed, let’s recognize events and people that have shaped our civic life as Salem developed during this whole century and a half.Selecting a 150 day period during our beautiful months of April through October, let’s bring attention to one (or more) historical occasions of each calendar day in either business, civic institution, church, school or family life...
A new office building is almost complete at the corner of 12th and Court Streets. John Griffith, who has lived in that neighborhood for all his 80 years remembered another structure there many years ago. Here it is: the home of Judge John Scott. Does anyone know more about this house or the family?..
The 1913 railroad bridge across the Willamette River as it appeared at its reopening pedestrians in 2009.
Salem’s history began with an 1840 Methodist missionary settlement on Mill Creek. An interpretive plaque on Broadway Street, north of the creek, tells the story...