The Corvallis-Albany Farmers' Markets Records document the establishment, organization, and promotion of seasonal markets for farm-direct products in Corvallis and Albany, Oregon. The bulk of the records are membership records, annual reports, meeting minutes, subject files, and photographs for Troop 1 from its founding in 1919 through the mid-1940s ( Boxes 01 - 03).Ĭorvallis-Albany Farmers' Markets Records, 1991-2012 The Boy Scouts of America Troop 1 Records document the membership and activities of this youth organization of Corvallis, Oregon. The Corvallis Fire Department Young America Engine Company No.1 Records document the establishment of the Corvallis, Oregon, fire department and the organization's social activities in addition to fire fighting ( Box 01).īoy Scouts of America Troop 1 (Corvallis, Or.) Records, 1919-1996 The Corvallis Branch was chartered in 1971.Ĭorvallis Fire Department Young America Engine Company No. The records include annual reports, correspondence, resolutions, press releases, petitions, and resolutions ( Box 01). The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Corvallis Branch Records document the early years of the Corvallis Branch and its activities and programs to address racial discrimination in education, employment, and housing. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Corvallis Branch Records, 1971-1974 The collections listed below represent a sampling of those collections. ![]() Though a portion may relate to Oregon State University, and not to the history of the city of Corvallis, there are over 350 collection guides that reference Corvallis in SCARC's holdings (you can view the complete search results list here: " Corvallis"). Corvallis College – known formerly as Corvallis Academy, and would eventually be known as Oregon State University – was established January 20, 1858. Salem was officially named the state’s capitol and governmental seat in 1864.Ĭorvallis was incorporated as a city on January 28, 1857. One of the first pieces of legislation introduced proposed moving the capital back to Salem the bill was passed December 15, and by December 18 the legislature had reconvened in Salem. Two years later, in January 1855, the Oregon Territorial Legislature passed an act making Corvallis the state’s seat of government on December 3, 1855, the 6 th Territorial Legislature began in Corvallis. Ultimately, Marysville was renamed Corvallis in an act passed December 20, 1853. Thurston, or Valena to rename Salem “Corvallis,” from the Latin for “heart of the valley ” and to change Marysville to Corvallis, to avoid confusion with Marysville, California which, coincidentally, lay along the same stagecoach route. In December 1853 three petitions were brought before Oregon’s 5 th Territorial Legislature: to change Salem’s name to “Thurston” after Oregon Statesman founder and former congressional delegate Samuel R. In 1851, Dixon and Avery combined 40-acre, adjacent parcels from their claims to establish a county seat Corvallis’ present-day courthouse sits on the approximate boundary between those two plots of land. ![]() According to the territorial census of 1849, the poplation of the Oregon Territory was 9,083 the population of Benton County in 1850 was 814. The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 continued to bring white settlers to Oregon expanding agricultural production, and the establishment of steamboat traffic on the Willamette, made Marysville a burgeoning hub of commerce. That same year, he platted and surveyed a town site on his claim, a community he named Marysville. By 1849, he’d made enough to return to his claim in Oregon, where he opened a general store. Dixon of Maryland, arrived shortly thereafter Dixon staked a 640-acre claim immediately to the north of Avery’s claim.Īvery briefly left his claim in 1848 hoping, like so many others, to strike it rich panning for gold in California. Avery, arrived in October 1845, staking a land claim at the juncture of the Marys and Willamette Rivers. Corvallis’ first white settler, Joseph C. ![]() Roughly 50 miles north of Eugene, Oregon, and nestled between the Willamette River and the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range, the city of Corvallis - originally known as Marysville - is situated on the ancestral lands of the Marys River band of the Kalaypuya.
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