Armin List oral history audio recording on logging and early Sherwood, Oregon
Media
Title
Armin List oral history audio recording on logging and early Sherwood, Oregon
Description
An audio recording of an oral history of Armin List, logger and long-time resident of Sherwood, Oregon. Most of the recording concerns the town of Sherwood and logging in the early 1900s. Topics include: Fourth of July celebrations in Sherwood; baseball teams in Sherwood; his father's work as an engineer for the railroad; working for the sawmill and cutting trees; church picnics; stories about Native Americans stealing; his mother picking hops; his father John List; 'Blue Town' near Sherwood; Armin's birth in the hamlet of Middleton southwest of Sherwood; how tree cutting was done; J.C. Smock and his general store in Sherwood; digging wells; leaving Sherwood in 1915 to find work; picking blackberries; wild animals that used to live near Sherwood; and other topics.
Creator
List, Armin, 1893-1977
Subject
Washington County (Or.) -- History
Forests and forestry
List, Armin, 1893-1977
Place
Washington County (Or.)
Sherwood (Or.)
Extent
1 sound file (1 hr., 27 min.)
Language
English
Identifier
SHS_OH_68
Rights
In Copyright
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Source
Sherwood Historical Society
Format
WAVE
Type
sound