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Friday, September 28, 2012

An Old Controversy...

The Sherwood Historical Society likes to make fun of Sherwood's onion farmers for taking the law into their own hands. However, the rascals resorted to dynamite only after they won their case to court and nothing happened. The "Lake" Oswego dam still stands!

Morning Oregonian
March 3, 1906.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Sherwood's Onion Land Explained

NEWS CLIPPING from The Morning Oregonian, January 1, 1895

The Evening Herald
(Klamath Falls, Oregon)
July 1912
Featuring a Lecture from a Sherwood Youth!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

When "Cipole" was King!

"Current prices are much too low. This matter the growers have it in their hand to remedy and they propose to do so by restricting sales from now on." --J. C. SMOCK, Sherwood Railroad Agent
	OREGONIAN December 1907 News Clipping