Author Archives: GHHP

Baseball in Garden Home

Posted on March 13, 2014 by GHHP

Baseball narrative posted on the History Board in 2014, featuring baseball in historic Garden Home. Ever since the playing fields appeared at the new Garden Home School in the early 1900s, ball players were there, with pick-up games, recess play, team … Continue reading →

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Winter 2013 News

Posted on December 14, 2013 by GHHP

Just published! The 2014 Historic Garden Home Calendar. This third edition features historic events that changed Garden Home: Advent of the trains, the Post Office, the school, library, shopping center and much more! Vintage photos and wonderful memoirs and history. … Continue reading →

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Olive Philena Oleson and Lillian Oleson Harris Ruhl

Posted on November 25, 2013 by GHHP

Olive Philena Oleson 1891-1985 and Lillian Oleson Harris Ruhl 1893-1995 Talking over old times . . . Of the eight children born to Ole and Polly Oleson, the sisters Lillian and Olive may have been the most adventurous. Lillian, two … Continue reading →

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Westgard Avenue – A Short History Of SW 87th Avenue from Garden Home Road to Alden Street

Posted on November 25, 2013 by GHHP

Compiled by Anne Hanford Olson With special contributors Dan Nebert, Carol Sturtevant Pratt and Nancy Sturtevant Dachtler Revised March 2014 The Atfalatis Hunt and Gather Here For 10,000 years, native people called Atfalatis, a band of the Kalapuya, inhabited our area. … Continue reading →

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Dick Vonada

Posted on November 23, 2013 by GHHP

The Most Awful Class at Garden Home School Our home was on SW 83rd, which was then called Orchard because of the apple and peach orchards growing along each side of the lane. My parents moved here from Portland in … Continue reading →

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Henry and Elizabeth Tucker

Posted on November 23, 2013 by GHHP

HENRY TUCKER and WILLIAM CLEMMENS LAND CLAIMS Henry and Elizabeth Tucker, along with the youngest 5 of their 6 children and Elizabeth’s father, Samuel McKay came to Oregon as part of a wagon train in 1852.  The southern section of … Continue reading →

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Bernie Rice recalls working at Whitney’s Cannery

Posted on November 22, 2013 by GHHP

Bernie Rice worked at the Whitney Cannery the two summer seasons after he graduated from Beaverton High School in 1962. The tasks varied but primarily he worked as a “cook.”  This meant he was involved in the actual processing of the food, … Continue reading →

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Past Pastors of Garden Home Community Churches

Posted on November 21, 2013 by GHHP
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Photos from the Garden Home Community Methodist Church 1960-1994

Posted on November 21, 2013 by GHHP
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Friendship Circle, 1970s

Posted on November 21, 2013 by GHHP

These members of the Garden Home Methodist Church in the 1970s are pictured in a special photo frame that Jan Pinniger is holding. Many had been members who were active in the “old church” when it was located on Garden Home Road at … Continue reading →

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