Old Days
Continued from Page 10B
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Fisher and Watkins Meat Market was located on
Willamette Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
Employees of the market (above) helped display Webfoot
Ham and Bacon, circa 1890.
But there was more than
celebrations over the novelty of
steamboats that year. There was
also the business of building a
school. On land donated by
Skinner, a log building was
erected at the corner of 11th
Avenue and Olive Street, and a
‘‘Yankee Schoolmaster.” ).H.
Rogers, was hired to teach
Following the opening of the
Territorial Road in 1857.
stagecoach travel reached
Eugene City. A tavern on the
northeast corner of Willamette
Street and Broadway was the
stage stop for the musical enter
tainers. lecturers, preachers and
visitors who arrived in the city.
Eugene City was promoted in
those days as the midway stop
between Oakland and Portland
with posters such as the
following:
STAGECOACH TO
OREGON
Go West. See Beautiful and
Bold, Blue Mountains,
Wonderous Green Valleys.
Visit Eugene City, Growing
City of Thousands. Meet
New and Interesting People.
Adventure! Fare — Fifty
Dollars
Perhaps because the era of the
circuit rider was coming to a
close or perhaps because of cer
tain unsavory influences, the
first church in the downtown
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m:a was built in 1857 by
Cumberland Presbyterian at
Sixth Avenue and Pearl Street.
Two years later an Kpiscopal
Church was built on land
lonated by Skinner
By 1858, the population of
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