Laurelwood History
Look for more information coming.
1 Looking east from Laurelwood road
2. Looking west from laurelwood road
There are stories about the Indians in this area and how dense the vegetation was when the school was first started. You could get lost by going several hundred feet into the forest. These stories and more are coming along with pictures.
Getting Started:
Laurelwood School started 1904.
John H. Walker and his family joined a group of 200 other families in 1845 to travel to Oregon. They started their journey from Missouri. The captain of their wagon train was Sol Tetherow. They had set out in search of farmland and only wanted to build their homes and forget the hardships they had endured on their six month journey from Missouri to Oregon.
When John H. Walker arrived in Oregon City with his family, they were sick and out of money. They had no food or clothing, no farming tools. His first job was splitting rails at 25 cents per hundred. His first homestead was in Scoggins Valley. He built a home in Gaston and that is where he lived the remainder of his life. Laurelwood Academy was later built on this land.
See small house at lower center for reference between then and now. (Between S and X on satelite picture)
Laurelwood 2008. (See see small house in lower left and compare with picture above. Garage has been added.)
Building History and Pictures
