The Benton County Genealogical Society offers a free program from 10:30am-Noon following the 10:30am General Meeting, 2nd Saturday of the month. Everyone is welcome to attend!
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SATURDAY Jan 13, 2024 – David Devin – FREE Program 11AM-Noon
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS – SEE 10 Feb below:
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10 Feb 2024 – SATURDAY – David Devin – FREE Program 11AM-Noon
Benton County Historical Museum
1101 Main St., Philomath, OR
Moreland Gallery, 2nd Floor
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Saturday March 9th, 2024
Benton County Historical Museum
1101 Main St., Philomath, OR
Moreland Gallery, 2nd Floor
11AM-Noon
Richard (Dick) Powell
Come and hear Dick Powell talk about Starker Forest and give historical information
on Benton County.
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FREE Program…..
Saturday April 13th, 2024
Benton County Historical Museum
1101 Main St., Philomath, OR
Moreland Gallery, 2nd Floor
11AM-Noon
Come and hear Randol B. Fletcher speak on the Civil War in Oregon
Many Oregonians think of the Civil War as a faraway event or something that happens when the Ducks and the Beavers tangle. Few know that the state raised two Union regiments or that more than ten thousand Union and Confederate veterans made their way to Oregon after the war. In fact, the Beaver State has impressive Civil War ties, including the battle death of Senator Edward Baker, the Long Tom Rebellion in Eugene and famous figures like U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp. Join Civil War enthusiast Randol B. Fletcher as he explores the tales behind the monuments and graves that dot today’s landscape and unearths the Hidden History of Civil War Oregon.
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Saturday 11 May 2024
10:30am-Noon
Members meeting 10:30AM followed by Potluck and socializing
(Will be held at the Annex Building)
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Saturday 14 Sep 2024
10:30am – Membership Meeting and 11am guest speaker Jessica Hougen, Executive Director of the Benton County Historical Society/Museums. She will discuss the plans for the
Philomath Museum and Annex building. Watch for an update.
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Saturday Oct 12, 2024
We will meet at the Annex building-10:30am until we finish.
Coffee/water and sweets will be provided.
We have a membership meeting and discuss our plans for moving out of the Annex
to the 3rd floor of the Historical Society building next door. Preliminary plans are
to be moved by the end of this December. We need your feedback/support and suggestions.
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Saturday November 9th
Seating available at 10:30AM with speaker starting at 11am
Our members meeting will be at the Annex after the guest speaker
finishes at Noon.
T. J. Starker: Forester, Public Citizen
SPEAKER: William G. Robbins Lecture-11am-Noon
William G. Robbins is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University and the author of many books on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, including Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1986, A Place for Wonder: The Andrews Forest and Benton’s Story: An Oregon County History. Copies of Robbins’ books are available in the museum stores.
“T.J.” Starker was an Oregon original.
His life and activities provide guideposts to understanding the evolution of forest science and forest practices in the Douglas fir region during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. A graduate in the first class of forestry students from Oregon Agricultural College, his varied career included employment with the Forest Service, the Western Pine Association, Oregon Agricultural College/Oregon State College (1922-1942), and then managing his growing forestry estate. T. J. Starker’s extensive community activities involved service on the Corvallis School Board, the local draft board, helping develop and serving on city and county parks boards, heading up fund raising to save the local hospital, and overseeing construction of the new First Congregational Church. He was also a significant participant in local real estate. Today Starker Forests, Inc., under the third and fourth generations, manages more than 95,000 acres.