Our Town

The city, incorporated in 1976, was named after Camp Adair, which was named after Henry Rodney Adair, a soldier and Astorian who was killed in Mexico in 1916…

Albany is known for the free River Rhythms summer concert series that draws thousands to Monteith Riverpark; for the Albany Civic Theater, one of the Northwest’s oldest…

According to a forest hydrologist that lives in Alpine, the unincorporated town is named for the vegetation found in the Hammer Creek Valley in the foothills of the Coast Range…

The community is named after the Alsea River, which runs through it. Alsea is believed to be derived from Alsi, the name of an Indian tribe that lived at the mouth of the river…

Story has it that Bellfountain was named after residents who had moved from a town in Ohio that had the same name. The general area was known in pioneer days as Belknaps Settlement…

The town was named after an early pioneer settler, William Blodgett, for whom the post office was named in 1888…

Brownsville is home to Pioneer Park, site of the annual Pioneer Picnic, Oregon’s oldest continuous celebration…

Founder Joseph Avery, a pioneer in the 1840s, named Corvallis, originally called Marysville, by compounding Latin words meaning “heart of the valley”…

The town was named after William L. Halsey, the vice president of the Willamette Valley Railroad Co. after the railroad reached Albany in 1870 and 18 miles south in 1871…

Incorporated in 1852, the town was known as Prairie Precinct when D. and A.A. McCully started a store on the banks of the Willamette River…

Originally, Jefferson was called Conser’s Ferry after the trans-Santiam watercraft operated about 1848 by pioneer Jacob Conser…

The biggest industry in town is Christmas trees. The Kings Valley Charter School – formed after the local elementary school closed – is adding high school grades…

In 1847, Jeremiah Ralston left Burlington, Iowa, with his wife and six children, crossing the Great Plains to Oregon, where they settled in what is now Lebanon…

Haman C. Lewis, another 1845er, settled near here…

The area features numerous trails and parks including the John Neal campground and the Freres and Lyons parks within the city limits…

The town, established in 1974, bears the name of a former station on the Oregon and California Railroad line, which was named after a local farming family…

Originally called Starrs Point after a local man who had a nearby store, the named was changed to Monroe in 1874, after the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe…

Philomath means “love of learning” in Greek, appropriate since the United Brethren Church opened Philomath College in 1867…

Scio is home to the Linn County Lamb and Wool Fair in May, which features a parade, forestry competition, a court of local high school students…

Shedd is named after Capt. Frank Shedd who arrived with his extended family in 1864. The first settlement here was actually named Boston and was the site of an important part of mid-valley history…