1906 Hitching Park
This is the Hitching Park as it was in 1906 when the hitching park was established and the posts in front of the stores removed.
This is the Hitching Park as it was in 1906 when the hitching park was established and the posts in front of the stores removed.
Seated at table: Nettie Crotty, Katie Kelly, Mattie Mahaffey and Edith Culp. Standing: Fanny Taylor, Hilda Hooper, Marie McGill and Mary Olson. Â Picture taken at McGill house on Washington Street. (Photo by Don McGill)
An earlier (1907) Memorial Day in Oregon with the local residents heading to the cemetery
This building is part of the Charlie’s on Main restaurant. The photo was published in an Oregon Observer Supplement on April 18, 1895.
Beginning a few years before World War I and continuing until the late 1930’s, cavalry soldiers stationed at Camp Grant, Illinois would pass through Oregon every summer on their way to Camp Douglas, Wisconsin.
In the early years, communities along a railway line occasionally witnessed a train wreck or derailment, and the Oregon area was no exception.
You may want to read Wheel Fever by Jesse Gant, and Nicholas J. Hoffman. Wheel Fever: How Wisconsin Became a Great Bicycling State was published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2013.
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