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Holiday party 1953

Ladies in McGill House

Seated at table: Nettie Crotty, Katie Kelly, Mattie Mahaffey and Edith Culp. Standing: Fanny Taylor, Hilda Hooper, Marie McGill and Mary Olson.  Picture taken at McGill house on Washington Street. (Photo by Don McGill)

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Railroad History

In the early years, communities along a railway line occasionally witnessed a train wreck or derailment, and the Oregon area was no exception.

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article about bicycle factory in Oregon

Badger Cycle Company

The Badger Cycle Company was organized in 1891 as a branch of a company from Chicago. J.C.B. Lathrop of Chicago was the president and his brother, C.A. Lathrop, a local resident, was manager and vice-president of the local factory. The company had a branch in Madison, also.

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F.C. Comstock

F.C. COMSTOCK, merchant, Oregon; born in Otsego Co., N.Y. in 1839; son of William and Fanny Comstock, both natives of New York, who settled on Government land in town of Dunn, Dane Co., in the spring of 1845;

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