Washington County Oral Histories

Armin List oral history audio recording on logging and early Sherwood, Oregon

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.

List, Armin, 1893-1977

Washington County (Or.) -- History

Forests and forestry

List, Armin, 1893-1977

Washington County (Or.)

Sherwood (Or.)

1 sound file (1 hr., 27 min.)

English

SHS_OH_68

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Sherwood Historical Society

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