Sweet Home, Oregon History

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In the old days...

General Sweet Home History
Sweet Home, as it was in 1910
Early settlers overcome daunting problems
How Sweet Home got its name
The Weddle Family in the Sweet Home area
Sweet Home Union High School - now SHHS

As others remember ...

1949 Sweet Home Loggers' Contest
Sweet Home Down Town - Turn of Century
Sweet Home High School Huskies
River boat steam whistle blew shift changes at Willamette lumber mill
Vietnam War casulties from Sweet Home
Justin Philpott - Sweet Home blacksmith
Happy Valley Tree Farm

Logging history - the way it was in the old days

Old Rosie - The Story
Fallers At Work - The Story
Buckers At Work - The Story
The Hooker in the brush - The Story
Photos of the early logging industry

Cecil Houk, former resident, remembers early '40s in Sweet Home

I remember ... Early Years in Sweet Home
I remember ... My father George Douglas Houk
I remember ... Doug and Me
I remember ... Doug, me and my mother
I remember ... Grade schools in Sweet Home
I remember ... Soap Box Derby Racer
I remember ... me, Doug and unknown girlfriend
I remember ... My home in Foster
I remember ... Old Roxy Theater
I remember ... Frontier Days Parade
I remember ... Early Radio in Sweet Home
I remember ... My SHHS Class of 1957

Cecil Houk the Sweet Home High School Class of 1957

The Class Of '57 Had Its Dreams
The Class of '57 In the Beginning
The Class of '57 Had Its Music
The Class of '57 Swam The Santiam
The Class of '57, Computers, And Y2K
The Class of '57 Hall of Fame
The Class of '57 Had Its Leaders

Sweet Home High School Alumni

Maureen Scanlon Haynes
Ron Waibel
1937
1948
1957

Sweet Home Murals

Main Street
Long Street - School murals

Sweet Home Fire Department History (Click on History)