Explore Salem's Neighborhood History

[@lindam61]

My mother was born in Salem in 1936 and grew up There. She still is living and has shared with me many stories of life in Salem in the 40s up.

[@xsixx7217]

Love Local history!

[@lindam61]

The Jason Lee Cemetary is located on D st between 20th and 21st . My grandmother took over the maintenance of the Cemetary for a couple of years back in the 80s. There are some very old headstones from the 1800s. My grandmother started teaching in Salem in the 1930s and continued to teach until she retired. She lived across from the Jason Lee Cemetary from the 30s until 2000 when she passed away. Her home was built late 20s . It still stands on 21st St. We have pictures of the one room school she taught at in 1934 with her students.

[@joemartinez4997]

Do you have any pics of some of the homes built in the early 1900's. I have a 1901 Farm house that I am renovating. I had found an old photo of the home when it was just one room and the out house in the back surrounded by land. I lost it and would like to find another copy. also I will contacting you for a copy of the brochure that you have regarding home styles. Thanks for posting this.

[@gordo9104]

I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the underground tunnels here in Salem. Besides that I learned a lot. Viva la raza in the E of town

[@tommy553013]

Great !!!!

[@vaughnlonganecker986]

Let's have a conversation of how the Indian orphans were treated before they came to the orphanage/hospital/church/school. Most of them were next to starving, the Indian community could not or would not help them, and the moral responsibility to take care of orphans can be scene in the regular practice of abandoning children they did not want in the woods or throwing them into the river. The revisionist type of history that you're getting here leaves out the very cruel and Savage behavior that the Indians were to one another. The restrictions that the missionaries put on the orphans pales in comparison to the hedonistic culture of the Indians.

[@julienielsen3746]

Thank you. Need to hear the truth.

[@shawnosborne8939]

I love salem,please forgive me just passionate. Thanks for giving.

[@vaughnlonganecker986]

Let's talk about how Indians acquired land, a war party would come and annihilate all the men, elderly and children and take whatever women they wanted for their wives, which is basically their sex slaves. This is not to say that some of the ways in which the Europeans took over lands was equitable, it was not in many cases however, to demonize the Europeans and not recognize what it was already going on among the Indians is hypocrisy and prejudice.

[@vaughnlonganecker986]

You have again mischaracterized the mission in Salem, there were indeed converts to Christianity in Salem, not nearly as many in The Dalles, of which there were well over eight hundred, but in total of the five missions that J. Lee started, there were about a thousand who indicated some commitment to Christ. Jason Lee was disappointed in the results that were at Salem, as well as the mission board, but this was largely from unbiblical expectations that were mixed with the worldly ways of determining success, which your prejudice reveals you have. This is not to say that Jason Lee was not a godly person, he was very much so. The testimony of his diary shows that he wanted to honor the Lord Jesus Christ above all else in his life, and he did. He faithfully began the mission, Church, educational system, and government, and moral family foundation that continues in our culture to this day. So similar to the foundation of our country that begins with the Puritans, we have a very unique work of God where in the indigenous peoples ask for the Bible to come and teachers and the response is the formation of a culture that last to this day. This work of God is unparalleled in all of human history, there is nothing like it in the rest of the annals of man.

[@shawnosborne8939]

1850's ALOt is known, too much is known. Way too much is known. Relative to what we know now. Courts house burnt, concrete said to be put along river bank. 33" thick concrete. Concrete on the river bank is not 33" thick. Salem river in 1850 looked like a..... Star!!!!!! It no longer looks like a star.

[@shawnosborne8939]

If youreason for courthouse burning is correcthen every courthouse burning was a collective movement. ALOt of courthouses burned mysteriously.

[@shawnosborne8939]

Razed. Raised.. hmm. Means the opposite. ALOt of opposites.

[@shawnosborne8939]

Scrap collecting informed and Inforced to create hoarding tendency to later demanize.

[@shawnosborne8939]

Contradictive China Town in a "racist" town. Homeless are indians or indians were homeless.