Tigard - Hardcover

Peterson, Barbara Bennett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1531665608 ISBN 13: 9781531665609

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Tigard, Oregon, began as an elegant farming community on the Tualatin Plains in the Northern Willamette Valley and became an upscale metropolitan residential community. The Native American Atfalati Kalapuyas interacted with early trappers, traders, missionaries,
and pioneer settlers. Pioneers arrived in the 1850s to take up donation land claims. Tigard was originally called East Butte, and numerous nationalities and religions populated the settlement. A grange was formed to aid farmers' causes, and churches were established to build a sense of neighborliness. East Butte became Tigardville when Charles Fremont Tigard opened a post office in his general merchandise store in 1886 and named the postal station after his parents. Tigardville became Tigard when the Oregon Electric Railway came through
in 1908, and residents distinguished Tigard from Wilsonville. The Oregon Electric shipped Tigard's farm produce north to Portland and south to Salem. Tigard was incorporated as a city on September 11, 1961, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011.

About this title

About the Author

Author Dr. Barbara Bennett Peterson is a former professor of history at Oregon State University, the historian/writer for the Tigard Historical Association, which preserves the John Tigard House Museum, and a docent at Tigard Public Library’s Local History Room.

Review

There is a five star book review by Geoff Pursinger on the front page of the Tigard Times newspaper on March 21, 2013 which includes pictures of Tigard, Oregon. The local schoolhouse called East Butte School built in 1896 is featured as are photos of early pioneering families and the churches and institutions that they established. For local residents of Portland and Tigard, Oregon this book is a must read as it offers insights into Tigard's community history and its many treasures such as the John Tigard House which is currently the local museum.

A first class local history book with 128 pages beginning with the Native Americans the Atfalati Kalapuyas and continuing to the present. The informative pictures from the Tigard Historical Association include photos of the earliest communities of East Butte and Tigardville, so re-named in 1886 by Charles F. Tigard to honor his parents Wilson and Mary Ann (Yoes) Tigard. Tigardville was shortened to Tigard in 1908 when the Oregon Electric Railroad came through. All important pioneering families are mentioned. This is a model book for doing an excellent local history, not to be missed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1531665608
• ISBN 13: 9781531665609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130