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Main Street, looking West - Oregon Hotel was on the northwest corner of what is now 6th and Main Streets.
This photo will look familiar if you viewed the postcard from last week. It is the same photograph, but it was hand altered by an artist. One wonders why the publishing company wanted to alter this scene of Main Street. Look back at last week’s postcard, can you see if you can find the two things the artist altered?
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Main Street, looking West at the northwest corner of what is now 6th and Main Streets. Note:postcard erroneously states "looking East"
Store signs seen on the left include The Wave, Millinery and Lurch’s Store. On the right Hotel Oregon, partial sign “Meals” and Griffin Hardware.
Notice the telephone poles up and down Main Street in this photo. Do you know what year Cottage Grove first had telephone service?
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Foot Bridge over the Coast Fork of the Willamette River.
This is one of the early foot bridges over the Coast Fork where citizens from both sides of the river could stroll from one side to the other for shopping or pleasure. Bicyclers enjoyed riding across the bridge as well. Do you know the what the town on the westside of the river was called before both sides joined together under the name Cottage Grove?
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Foot Bridge over Coast Fork of the Willamette River
This photo is of one of Cottage Groves early swinging bridges. If you look closely you can see the rock outcropping that is still visible along South River Road today. Do you think this bridge is where the newly rebuilt swinging bridge is today?
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Coast Fork of the Willamette River at Cottage Grove, a river crossing for wagons, can be seen on the lower left.
This photo was used in the 1909 Cottage Grove book that was published by Sunset Publishing to entice people from around the nation to settle in Cottage Grove. It’s hard to imagine what it was like before bridges, especially in the winter. Do you know a name of one of the early bridges over the Coast Fork of the Willamette in Cottage Grove’s early history?
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