Please Contact Us

428 South Water St.

Silverton, Oregon

97381

503-873-7070

Office Hours:

Tuesday  10 - 3 pm

(It's best to call before stopping by...)

Museum open

Saturday & Sunday

1 to 4 pm

(Closed December through February)

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        silverton.museum@live.com               

              Special Groups are invited

Please contact us to reserve a time.

             

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Welcome to the Silverton Country Historical Society

and Museum of Silverton, Oregon

Silverton's Founding Mother, Polly Crandall Coon Price

In the early 1850’s Beaford Smith built a sawmill on Silver Creek, near where city hall is today.  Next to this new mill was the Donation Land Claim of Polly Coon, widow of Thomas L. Coon, who created and registered the first town plat for Silverton, Oregon, with the Marion County surveyor’s office in 1854.  She started selling lots, and the rest is history.  The following year, in 1855, she married Steven Price, a local sawmill owner.

Cusiter's merchantile at the  corner of Main and Water Streets, later Olson's Pharmacy and Weisners.