By Melissa Wagoner It may not look like much, but this year the railway bridge over Silver Creek in Silverton – otherwise known as MP 10.6 or simply the Silver Creek Bridge – will turn 100 years old. Built in 1923 by the American Bridge Company, a company that – founded in 1900 in Pennsylvania – not only pioneered the […]
In the late 1800s a rural area south of Silverton was the home of McCalpin School, that served children of the farming community of Waldo Hills until 1950 when Victor Point Elementary opened. McCalpin was a close community where people knew each other and liked to be together. Many were in the same family. In 1938 or 1939 a group of women organized the McCalpin Stitchers to create quilt-like lap robes for people in nursing homes in Mount Angel, Silverton and Stayton. Along with a purpose, it gave its members a social outlet.
