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Living on Maplewood Road

Posted on April 22, 2016 by GHHP

Growing up in Maplewood meant that we rode the “Blue Bus”, Tualatin Valley Stages- either Garden Home – Maplewood, or Garden Home –Metzger. My family lived on the southwest end of Maplewood, which was the closest to Garden Home. In … 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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Otto Arndt – 1950s Aerial Photos of Garden Home

Posted on December 15, 2015 by GHHP

October 2015:  Donna Arndt Oliver, daughter of Otto Arndt, has given us a large collection of Washington County aerial photos and negatives. The family lived in Garden Home on the site of the current location of the Garden Home Market … Continue reading →

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