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Sweet Home Oregon company history timeline

1851

The first settlers, William Clark and Samuel Powell, arrived in the Sweet Home valley in 1851 but did not remain long.

1852

In 1852 Lowell Ames and his family crossed over the hill from Holley [six miles west] to start a small sawmill and to become the first permanent settlers.

1892

Five miles east of Sweet Home community of Foster, founded in 1892, also experienced growth.

1893

Sweet Home was a stage stop on the road across the mountains, [US Highway 20 east of Sweet Home]. A tool gate was built in 1893 a few miles east of town -LESS-THAN-00178-a mural depicts the early toll road-GREATER-THAN-00178-.

Sweet Home Incorporated In 1893, Sweet Home became an incorporated city in Linn County, Oregon.

1921

The tribe occupied this part of Eastern Linn County until 1921, when Indian Lize, the last remaining member of the Kalapuya tribe, died.

1949

The new addition to the grade school in the Linn County town of Foster is shown in this 1949 photograph.

1962

A second "shot in the arm" was given the community in 1962-63 when construction work began on nearby Green Peter dam.

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