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The 62-year-old owner of the B & B grocery store at Southeast Sixth Street and Hartford Avenue will let his sons take over more responsibility for the family business, but he'll never be totally gone from the store.Read full story from the DesMoines Register
The walls of the store are covered in old photographs and other documents that trace the history of the area back to its beginnings as an independent town,
Sevastopol, in the late 1870s.
Thousands of historic Oregon photographs dating from the mid 1800's, with a special focus on the City of Salem and Western Oregon communities. The photographs are digitized and searchable. Most of the photographs were assembled from a variety of local and private sources and collections. The website was created by the Salem Public Library and is an important resource for those interested in the history of Oregon.
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View the Collection
Known for its displays of old technology, the Granite Falls Historical Museum is using new technology to build a wider audience.Museum volunteers have put about 5,000 historic photos - its entire collection - online.
The museum has accumulated photos and other historic items since it opened in 1971. But there's a difference between collecting and a collection, museum spokesman Fred Cruger said.
"Now, we're trying to make it accessible," he said.
Officials have built a database of old photos and maps. Later this year, they hope to break ground on a new 3,000-square-foot building.