Historic Hayesville

02/23/2026

We so appreciate Gwen sharing about John W. Jackson and his wife, Caroline Woodson Jackson, who are buried at the Hayesville Cemetery.
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025151/2010-02-24/ed-1/seq-4

Oregon's Black History Keepers: 2000s

After a career at SAIF, Salem resident Gwen Carr joined the Board of Directors of Oregon Black Pioneers in 2004. Alongside Willie Richardson and Kimberly Moreland, Gwen spent years researching and presenting stories of Oregon’s Black history through exhibits, talks, and historical markers. Gwen was the project manager for the 2007 book Perseverance, documenting the Black history of Marion and Polk counties. Today, she is the Director of the Bush House Museum in Salem.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, we're highlighting a century of Black history keepers here in Oregon. Without them, so many stories would be lost. We honor and appreciate their essential work this month, and all year round.

02/23/2026

Métis Minute Lake Labish
Lake Labish was a significant large lake in the center of the Willamette Valley to the north of Salem, Oregon. The lake was very long extending across the valley from east to west in the drainage of the Pudding River. There were numerous branches of the lake that extended along creeks as wetlands and marshes. Lake Labish was named by French-Canadian (Metis) fur traders, after seeing and hunting numerous deer there in the early part of the 19th century. La Biche means a female deer or doe in the French language.
https://youtu.be/jEtztx1jChY
https://ndnhistoryresearch.com/2021/12/19/draining-lake-labish/

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

01/10/2026

A Salem and Oregon legend has passed.
🍔🍟 Bob's Hamburgers opened in 1955 in Salem, but got it's start in 1946 on Portland Road NE!
Corey and his late wife, Betty, who died in 2018, settled in Salem after the war. He got a job running the lunch counter in a new grocery store opening in 1946 on Portland Road NE, and by 1951 was running a state office building cafeteria. His wife baked a cake every day at home to go with their 5- and 7-cent coffee.

Bob Corey, a World War II veteran and founder of Bob's Hamburgers, died Jan. 2 at 105. See link below ⬇️ bit.ly/4qHLoF8

08/18/2025

👋Welcome to Salem along 99E! 🎉

Community members celebrated a new Salem welcome sign during a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, after a since-corrected spelling mistake sparked frustration in the community.

08/18/2025

🤎 Adam Stephens and Hayesville connection at the Keizer Heritage Museum!
😃Come check it out! 🛶🦫The Wallace House/ Fur Trapper exhibit.

07/26/2025

Hayesville's own Adam Stephens is highlighted in his portrait wearing a Beaver top hat at the Wallace House fur trapper exhibit at the Keizer Heritage Museum! Stephens land claim extended into the boundaries of the Keizer community as well as Salem.

🦫Beaver fans need to stop by and see our newest addition - a beaver felt hat that was in high fashion in the 1800s!
Trappers were needed to get all those beaver pelts. Wallace House in Keizer was the post for the fur trappers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_hat

Shown sporting his hat is Adam Stephens (1819-1891)
🦫1849 Oregon Pioneer of Keizer and Hayesville.

🌲Adam Stephens followed his brother Sanford who arrived in the Lake Labish area in 1848. Adam, wife Lucinda, their children, brother William Stephens, and Lucinda’s parents and sibling (Gilmores died on the trail) arrived in 1849. Adam was a leader in Philip Glover’s wagon train. Adam traded a gun, horse and $30 to Anton Presley for 585.33 acres of land (now Keizer/Hayesville) settling in the Claxter area. Adam built a sawmill and home. Together with his brother Sanford, he conducted a general merchandise store in Salem, theirs being the second store in the town. The brothers constructed the first road across Lake Labish. Adam made donations for the Hayesville school, church, and cemetery. He was a charter member of the Baptist church of Salem.
Historic Hayesville
https://www.willametteheritage.org/adam-stephens-middle-school