Tag Archives: SW Garden Home Rd

Garden Home Road Safety Path

Posted on May 26, 2020 by gardenhomehistoryproject

The bike and pedestrian path that runs along the north side SW Garden Home Road was built in approximately 1965. Prior to development of the walking path along Garden Home Road, children and others had to walk on the road, … Continue reading →

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1903 Halloween night slaying on “the Garden Home road”

Posted on November 3, 2016 by GHHP

We recently posted a story about the other Garden Home road discussing how the moniker of Garden Home road used to refer to the route of SW Broadway Drive to SW Patton Road to SW Shattuck Road to SW Oleson … 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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Bob Feldman

Posted on November 19, 2013 by GHHP

Update: Bob passed away February 22, 2016. Click here to read his obituary. Back in the 1940s, you might have seen young Bob Feldman riding his bike home from Garden Home School precariously toting a pail of slop from the cafeteria to … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Johnson: Garden Home Recollections

Posted on November 21, 2012 by GHHP

[Editor: Dorothy passed away in 2022. Read her obituary.] Arrival in Oregon: Pioneers looking for new land and new opportunities describes my family’s arrival in Garden Home in 1941. My father, Gust, mother Jean, sister Shirley and I left Superior, Wisconsin … Continue reading →

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