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November 10, 2018 Veteran’s Day Honors

Posted on November 19, 2018 by gardenhomehistoryproject

On Saturday, November 10, we held our Veteran’s Day Honors at the Garden Home Recreation Center. Photos, interviews, historic displays, pie and coffee. Aloha American Legion Post 104 presented the colors. Sig Unander presented the slide show of Fly Gals, the story … Continue reading →

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T. E. Hills (U.S. Civil War veteran)

Posted on May 14, 2017 by GHHP

The name of Mr. T.E. Hills comes up in various accounts of early Garden Home. He lived in the older two-story blue house (Dickson home) on Oleson Road at Shirley Lane, 7730 SW Oleson Road, back in the early 1900s. His … Continue reading →

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Veterans of Garden Home

Posted on March 13, 2015 by GHHP

These stories were collected from veterans attending our May 17, 2014 event at the Garden Home Recreation Center celebrating Armed Forces Day (click here to see all the photos from that event) and our November 10, 2018 event celebrating Veteran’s Day … Continue reading →

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May 17, 2014 Armed Forces Day celebration

Posted on May 17, 2014 by GHHP

On May 17, 2014, the Garden Home History Project hosted a celebration of Armed Forces Day at the Garden Home Recreation Center. The event included a formal color guard presentation by the Aloha American Legion Post, introductions of attending veterans … Continue reading →

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1944 Crash of Lt. Robert Strong’s P-63 Kingcobra fighter plane

Posted on November 18, 2013 by GHHP

We had reports from a number of residents who lived in Garden Home in the 1940s of a fighter plane crash in Garden Home. They recall that they went to the crash site to try to find souvenirs or the … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Lambert Wood – A Garden Home Author

Posted on June 21, 2010 by GHHP

Elizabeth Lambert Wood was an early Oregon writer whose books were widely read during her lifetime. Binford and Mort, a Portland Publishing Company now located in Hillsboro, Oregon, published the books. Elizabeth was born in 1874, the ninth of ten … Continue reading →

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