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Tag Archives: Swiss
Dairies of Garden Home
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
Posted in Dairies
Tagged Alpenrose, Balmer, dairy, Fanno Creek Dairy, Garden Home Dairy, Gertsch, Hoffman, Marugg, Schallenberger, Shattuck Dairy, Swiss, Von Bergen
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Robert Gertsch
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
Posted in Early History, Memoirs, People
Tagged Balmer, dairy, Gertsch, Hoffman, Oleson Family, Shattuck Dairy, Swiss, Tate, Thurman
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Stanley Marugg
The old Marugg hay barn, off of south Oleson Road, was the local hang-out for Garden Home kids in the 1930s and 1940s. Hay bales could be pulled around and stacked into all sorts of forts and tunnels. Joanne Day … Continue reading
Early Dairies by Pete Gertsch
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
Posted in Dairies, People
Tagged Balmer, dairy, Fanno Creek Dairy, Garden Home Dairy, Gertsch, Hoffman, Shattuck Dairy, SW Oleson Rd, Swiss
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