Tag Archives: Gertsch

Dairies of Garden Home

Posted on October 20, 2023 by GHHP

This article examines the dairies in the greater Garden Home area: Recollections of area dairies Alpenrose Dairy (Cadonau) Shattuck Dairy (Gertsch) Von Bergen Dairy Fanno Creek Dairy (Feldman) Garden Home Dairy (Marugg) Hoffman Balmer Dairy Schallberger Dairy Fulton Park Dairy … Continue reading →

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Shirley Gertsch Bartels on Peter and Pete Gertsch

Posted on November 9, 2019 by GHHP

Peter Gertsch, his wife Katy Tannler and his brother Fred (known as Fritz) came to Garden Home from Switzerland and settled on property off of Oleson Road sometime in the 1890’s. This property was on the west side of Oleson … Continue reading →

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Arranmore Development

Posted on March 15, 2018 by GHHP

The Arranmore development of family homes is entered off of Oleson Road just south of Vermont and  the Montclair Grade School at the west end of the Vermont. The following is an excerpt from an excellent history of the development … Continue reading →

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Robert Gertsch

Posted on February 22, 2018 by GHHP

Robert Gertsch was born in 1946. His grandfather and two brothers had settled in Garden Home in the 1890s and developed the early Shattuck Dairy. Robert started Garden Home School in the fourth grade in 1960 and graduated from Beaverton … Continue reading →

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The other “Garden Home Road”

Posted on April 4, 2016 by GHHP

While searching the University of Oregon’s 1846-2015 database of Oregon newspapers for interesting Garden Home stories, we stumbled across a tragic story on the front page of the November 2, 1903 Morning Oregonian (PDF) about a 1903 Halloween-night slaying near Bertha…on the … Continue reading →

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Early Dairies by Pete Gertsch

Posted on June 22, 2010 by GHHP

Following is a brief history of the early dairy industry, written for his family by Pete Gertsch in 1970 or 1971. The Gertsch family established the Shattuck Dairy in the 1890’s just north of Garden Home Road and south of Vermont … Continue reading →

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