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No. 7 – Cottage Grove, Oregon. Circa 1911. Row River above the breakwater, where the Coast Fork of the Willamette and Row River merge, north of Cottage Grove – A man and two women fishing, lower right.
There are some interesting stories in the early newspapers of fishing parties that would catch 100 or more fish each in a day! Do you know where the Coast Fork of the Willamette and the Row River meet?
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Looking west, taken from Knox Butte. Mt. David is in the upper right and Coiner Park is now where the grove of trees are on the right of the card.
In this early view of Cottage Grove taken from Knox Butte. If you look closely you can see two schools, one is almost in the middle of the photo and the other is on the far right. Can you name these two schools?
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Looking East – Main Street between what is now 6th & 7th streets – Westenhaver Bros. in Burkholder Woods Building – Sample Store and Benson Drugs in the Phillips Building – Rosewood Meals in The Bank Building.
The 1916 parade was a grand patriot event. In the Cottage Grove Sentinel, July 6th edition’s account of the parade there is mention of the patriotic address being delivered by the Oregon, Attorney General George M. Brown, who refused an invitation to speak at Seattle in order to be here in Cottage Grove. Do you recall the famous celebrity who was Grand Marshall for Cottage Grove’s parade in the early 1970’s?
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[Coast Fork] of the Willamette River - Bridge with horse and buggy. View is south of where the Main Street Bridge is now.
This peaceful summer scene, about 1910, shows an early bridge over the Willamette River south of where our main street bridge is today. If you look closely you can see a horse and buggy crossing from the eastside to the westside. By December of 1911 our town folk were being introduced to automobiles with a movie presentation at the Arcade Theater showing how the E.M.F. and Flanders touring cars were made.
Do you know how many bridges, including vehicle and pedestrian, are within the Cottage Grove City limits?
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South part of the area taken from the West - Knox & Taylor Butte can be seen in the distance. The tall building is the, Cottage Grove Flour Mill, on River Road. To the bottom left of the flour mill you can see the church building that is now, St. Andrews Episcopal Church on West Main Street, it was first built for the Seventh Day Adventist congregation.
This is a great winter shot of Cottage Grove’s westside, you can get a feel for what the early Northwest Neighborhood looked like around 1917. The Cottage Grove Flour Mill had the tallest building at the time. The mill was established in 1891. What kind of power was used to run the flour mill when it first opened?
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