Washington County Oral Histories

Chester Fischbuck oral history recording

An audio recording with a full transcript of an oral history of Chester Fischbuck on April 25, 1978, about his family’s onion farm near Sherwood, Oregon. He talks of his family’s settlement in the late nineteenth century and his great-grandfather being the first to grow onions in the area. The land before the settlement is described and then the process of growing and farming onions. The onion market was not affected by the Great Depression because of the international trade of onions. He talks of his neighbors and their history and onion farms, the Riperian Water Rights on the Tualatin River, the addition of electricity to the farm as it grew, and the future of the onion farmland. The transcript has a page of introduction to the interview.

Fischbuck, Chester

Washington County (Or.) -- History

Fischbuck, Chester

Washington County (Or.)

2 sound cassettes (1 hr., 12 min.)

English

WCM_OH_432

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Five Oaks Museum

Meyer, Lloyd

Audiocassettes

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