Troutdale Historical Society 2008 Calendar

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Starting in February, we will be having First Friday's at The Depot.............For February 1st, we will have a local winemaker, Starlena Simon, from Corbett doing the wine tasting (and her products will be for sale as well). We also will have local artist, Sarah Lowe, painting some of her wonderful works that we feature here in the Depot Store. Please join us from 5-9 p.m. to support these local artists and the Troutdale Historical Society. There is also a good chance that we will have live music that evening. Thanks for supporting THS!

Jan. 20, 2008 Troutdale City Hall. Clarence Mershon discusses the second half of his book “The Columbia River Gorge Highway, From the Sea to the Wheal Fields of Eastern Oregon.”


Feb. 17, 2008 At Sam Cox Building. Annual Membership Meeting 2-4 p.m. Also, a presentation by Mike Carrick on the firearms used during settling of the West and the Civil War.


March 7 – First Friday at the Depot.
Wine tasting by Starlena Simon of Leaning Star Winery in Corbett.
Artist Kathi Allegri will be painting.
Music TBD


March 16 - 1940s Radio Show presented by Dennis Crow
Come enjoy a radio show from the past before we had television.


March 22 - Troutdale/Fairview Elementary School Reunion
5p.m. - ??? At the Barn Museum in Troutdale 732 E. Columbia River Hwy
Bring your own liquid refreshment. There will be a donation jar for food.


April 4 - First Friday at the Depot


April 19 - Museum Round Robin
Troutdale Historical Society Plans Museum Round Robin On Saturday, April 19, 2008 the Troutdale Historical Society will be hosting the second Museum Round Robin. The group will meet at Reynolds High School, 1698 SW Cherry Park Rd in Troutdale (cross street is 257th) at 8:45 and depart by bus at 9:00 a.m. sharp.

This tour will start at Phillip Foster Farm in Eagle Creek. At the farm there is an 1860’s barn, an 1883 farmhouse, a replica store, blacksmith shop, covered wagons, antique carriages and beautiful heritage gardens.

Philip Foster's 1847 farm was the first real civilization the pioneers encountered after their 2,000 mile trek west. Located on the Barlow Road, the Foster Farm hosted an estimated 10,000 exhausted pioneers. The garden is home to the oldest lilac in Oregon, carried by Mrs. Foster on the sea voyage from Maine around Cape Horn. From the farm, we will go to Oregon City to visit McLoughlin House and Barclay House.

Dr. John McLoughlin was chief factor (superintendent) of the British Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) based at Ft. Vancouver on the Columbia River. The fur trade brought the first permanent white settlers to the area. He had purchased HBC's land claim at Willamette Falls (Oregon City), and he and his family moved into his newly-built mansion in 1846 after being forced to retire. He died in this home in 1857.

Dr. Barclay came from Scotland to Fort Vancouver as a Hudson's Bay Company physician in 1840. The Barclay home, built in 1849, remained in the family until the 1930's, when it too was moved up the hill from the waterfront to sit adjacent to the McLoughlin House. It was added to the National Park System in 2003, along with the McLoughlin House, as a unit of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Cost for the event is $15. This will be an all day event so bring a sack lunch and join in the fun! For more information or to sign up, please call the Troutdale Historical Society at 503-661-2164.


April 20 – Program Meeting Oral History
Sharon Nesbit will interview Elsie Simnitt


May 3 – Annual Tea & Tour
This year’s event will be held at Troutdale House by the Sandy River (formerly Liberator Pub) next door to the Depot Store and Museum. The building was one of the original vegetable sheds used to process produce leaving the area by train.


May 17 – Annual Cemetery Tour led by Stan Clarke and Sharon Nesbit to For Vancouver and beyond.



For more information, contact us.