Robert Moore was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1781. In 1805 he married Margaret Clark and together they later moved to Illinois. In 1839 they headed west on the Oregon Trail with the Peoria party and arrived in Oregon City in 1840. He negotiated the purchase of a 1,000 acre site from […]
West Linn City Hall
Prior to 1936, West Linn’s city offices were housed in one room of the train station for the Willamette Falls Railway. Willamette Falls Railway station, c1909 (Historic Photo Archive) The interurban line was shut down in 1930 and the station torn down in 1936 to make way for a new building that would become the […]
West Linn Inn
The West Linn Inn was built in 1918 by the Crown Zellerbach Corporation. Stories differ about the original purpose of the place. One story says that it was built to provide homes for the mill employees as well as other workers in West Linn. Another story says it was built to house strikebreakers that were […]
Fields Bridge
In 1850 Joseph Fields filed a donation land claim along the Tualatin River in what is now the West Linn area. He owned the land on both sides of the river and in 1853 purchased a $5 license to operate a ferry at this spot, which he did until the first bridge was built. A […]