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Garden Home Gazette

Posted on November 10, 2011 by GHHP

In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Garden Home PTA published a newsletter, the GARDEN HOME GAZETTE. The newsletter provided the community with current state, county and local information relating to Garden Home School. It included articles on bond measure, local school … Continue reading →

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Sep 24, 2011 Centennial anniversary of the first Garden Home class for school children

Posted on September 24, 2011 by GHHP

Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011: We’ll be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Garden Home class for school children, beginning at 10 am. In 1911 the class was held upstairs in Chris Jager’s store, now the Dairy Queen corner. The original Garden Home … Continue reading →

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Angie MacKay Fredrickson

Posted on March 22, 2011 by GHHP

March 2011 My mother and father bought an acre and a third on 82nd Avenue, off of Taylors Ferry Road. We had a route number for an address— Rt 6 Box 936 to be exact. My father cleared the land … Continue reading →

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Clark Stephens

Posted on November 22, 2010 by GHHP

[Editor: Clark passed on September 1, 2019, see also the obituary for Clark Stephens.] My parents Noble and Bessie (Elizabeth) Stephens moved to Garden Home in 1928. They both were going to business school in Portland. They and friends would go camping … Continue reading →

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History of Garden Home Community Library

Posted on November 21, 2010 by GHHP

(March, 2003 These notes were taken from review of historical material and old minutes by Elaine Shreve & Polly Herman. 2010 updated information by Elaine Shreve follows.) Briefly: The Garden Home Elementary School, Beaverton School District, closed in 1982 and the … Continue reading →

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