Dedication I ! The members and advisors of the Carl- The Carlton Civic Improvement Asso- ton Elementary School Bicentennial Club ciation has benefited from her active in- dedicate this book to Mrs. Christina volvement. She has worked hard to make Linke. Special appreciation the Carlton City Park a and recognition must be credit to our town. For given to Mrs. Linke for her many years she has headed untiring efforts as organ- various charitable drives. izer, coordinator, and mov- Mrs. Linke instigated a ing force behind this book. project inI971 of research- ing the hisiory of the area A resident of Carlton schools. Student enthusiasm since 1935, Mrs. Linke has led her to undertake the pro- for forty years been vitally ject resulting in this book. interested in the betterment of Carlton. She and her hus- For all her many contri- band Emanuel Linke have butions to Carlton, and maintained successful businesses in the especially for her desire to involve the community that have helped in the eco- young people of this community in this nomic development of Carlton. history project-we thank her; Table of Contents PAGE Indians L Pioneers 2 Agriculture L8 Schools 3o Forest Industry 43 Transportation/Railroads ,6 Transportation/R.o ads t8 The Commercial District 6L Public Services 72 Community Activities 88 Churches Lt4 Homes t23 Foreword This book is being published as a bicentennial project by the Carlton Elementary School Bicentennial Club, a group of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at Carlton Elementary School who volunteered for this project. The first objective was to give to the students a knowledge of the efforts of their antecedents, from the pioneers on down, to build our community; and to create a desire on the part of the students to learn more I about the lives and work of the people who have made this era possible. I , I This experience has been a rewarding one for many of the students. Some have a much greater apprecia- tion of history now than when we started. The adult advisors have also gained from this experience. lWe know that there is a lot more to learn if only we had the time to "dig it out," but we have promised the students that the book will be out before the end of the school year. There is much more that could be included, but the deadline has to be met. To those who should have been included, or whose relatives should have been included, we can only say, "we are sorry, it was not intentional, but time was the dietator. \7e hope someone else will someday carry on, Students Brian Ackerman Theresa Elliott Tracy Middleton Annette Stieg April Adams Blayne Ferguson Shannon Perry Connie Strand Lori Baker Dawn Fleury Brian Rake Christy Terwey Tina Barnett Michelle Fortune Laura Rake Theresa Turner Tami Barr Kevin Fournier Caroll Riley Lisa Uken Mahlon Beachy Rod Gill Sharon Roy Nancy Von Euw El^^l-., D^-^^-l- t^-'.-^ t'1-^.. T ;-,1^ D,,""^il sL^|1., \v/^1,,-l ,LLA)/ llrrr4rqJ J4rrrll vr4y urrLrrt w 4rurru LuAnn Caldwell Paul Horgan Virginia Russell Susan tilTarner Sharon Caldwell Mike Isakson Theresa Schmidt Nancy'S7'arner Kathleen Callanan Peggy Knell Jessie Silva Cheryl Webb Sheila Chesler Georgia Long Terrell Staebler Lisa \Tilliams Gary Daniels Sheila Long Pam Staser Paul \Tilliams Advisors lViebke Joyce Baum Catherine Jernstedt Carol Rowland Roy \7ayne Merry Berry Christina Linke Melvin \Tasson Anne Mason \Tilliams Robert Eager Cathi Mason Nita \Tiebke Ellen \food Marian Rowland Gray Ray Neubig \ I Indians THE FIRST INHABITANTS OF CARLTON The Indians that inhabited the area that included L very different chaructet from the Indians on the east Carlton were given the name "Twalaty," hence the of the mountains. The native females as well as males, name Tualatin. They were of a grett tribe called the wear but little clothing, generally a kind of apron, and Kalapuya, which constituted the population of the \7il- a dressed skin, or blanket, thrown loosely about them. lamette Valley before the white trappers and settlers They wear nothing on their feet any part of the year; entered the valley. The boundaries of the Twalaty do- but those who live with the whites adopt the European main were: L) Eastern boundary . \Tillamette Rivet; dress (Zion's Herald, L832)." . Forest Grove-Hillsboro area; 2) Northern boundary. Mr. \Vard, boln 1,896, of Panther Creek relates the 3) Southern boundary. McMinnville-Dayton area; following story of an Indian encounter: The \7ards 4) \Testern boundary. Coast Range of Mountains. were living upon the Panther Creek when this band of The population of the Twalaty and the Indians of the Indians from east of the Cascades came over to visit a rest of the valley was drastically reduced by the epi relative. One of their group died while in the arca. He demic of diseases previously unknown to these Indians. died of some disease, whereupon, they placed the body The first epidemic, small-pox, swept westward out of in the branches of a tree instead of burial in the ground. Missouri and through the Pacific Northwest in L782- The group of Indians didn't believe in putting diseased 1783.\t probably destroyed half of the Indian popula- bodies in the ground. Mr. Ward describes how they tion where it struck. Although no evidence has been watched, over a period of time, the body decompose; seen to relate it directly to the Kalapuyans, venereal slowly falling to the ground piece by piece until there disease was rampant among the Indians in other parts was nothing remaining. reason suppose resi- of Oregon. There is little to the Half-way between Yamhill and Carlton, just west of dents the escaped the disease. result, of Valley As a the the main highway that extends between them, lies a hill advancing tide of white settlement met with little or no known as Alec's Butte. It was named for a fur traPPer resistance from the demoralized survivors. Thus disease whose name was Alexander Carson. Carson met his helped make possible the settlement of the \Tillamette death in 1836 while camped on this hill with his em- almost without resistance, and the settlement Valley, ployee, a Twalaty Indian named Boney who had a wife completed the collapse of Indian culture. Unlike the and son. Camped along with them was the entire Twal- areas occupied by the Rogue and Nez Perce Indians, aty tribe. was never "\Willamette \War." there a Valley Indian Vhile Carson was asleep in his tent Boney made his Perhaps the attitude of many white men is reflected boy, a twelve or thirteen year old, shoot Carson in the Leslie "Always in the statement made by M. Scott. it head. The boy later confessed to the crime but no mo- will be a source of thanksgiving that the destruction of tive was given (Stoller, "Alexander Carson," OHQ). Indians the Pacific diseases spared the of Northwest by The fate of the Twalaty was sealed with the treaty the pioneer settlers the horror of a strong and malig- of July 3, 1857 which placed the Twalaty, the Indians nant foe." (Scott, OHQ, 29:L61). of the rest of the \Willamette Valley, and Indians from \Triting from "Fort Van Couver" in February,1833, other parts of Oregon and northern California on the \Willamina. John Ball describes the Twalaty thus. "The natives Grand Ronde Reservation near A census of of this part of the country are very peacable, seldom 1910 showed a population of 44Twalaty. Today there making war on each other or the whites. They manifest afe none. i1l Pioneers N7e present this account of some of the pioneers with NATHAN KOONTS SITTON, later known as considerable hesitation, since we know we are covering "Doc," was born September 2, 1"825, in Missouri. He only a very small percent of those brave emigrants. was the oldest son of Franklin and Rebecca Austin Sit- About many we know nothing and since our time is so ton. He was brought up in Missouri until he was seven- limited, we can do no more. teen, when at the age of seventeen, on May 2, L842, \7e are including a map showing the donation land with two other young men, he came to Oregon. His claim owners as furnished by the Yamhill County His- companions were Tom Brown and John Cox. It was on torical Society, to aid you in the location of the claims this trip that he attained l-ris nickname of "Doc." written about, ot any others in which you might be The three came with a wagon to Fort Laramie. They interested. drove a team to Fort Hall for a Mr. Vance. After they Often the queslion arises "\Why," "\Vhy did .they left Fort Hall, Mr. Brown got sick. They cared fol him leave everything, suffer the hardships of the long trek and got him through to The Dalles. At The Dalles they west, and then the trying life of the pioneers?" Many were joined by two men named Eaton. The Eatons and reasons are advanced and perhaps each individual had Cox took Brown down the Columbia and up the Wil- his own, but it seerns to be added up in this sentence lamette to Oregon City. Meantime Sitton brought the from Hines "History of Oregon": "The desire and pur- animals across country. pose to find a home in the $Tillameite Valley, the fame He arrived at Oregon City October 74,1843. His ani- of whose climate and productiveness had already spread mals were lean and worn out and his clothes were very far and wide, was becoming a contagion." ragged, so ragged that he was bare from his knees \7e are indebted for much of our factual material to down.