THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Sale. Oregoa
Monday, December 14, 1951
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Highberger's flour nd feed mill at Aumsville, land-
mark of hone and buggy days, contmuei a muiing
tradition established at Aumsvlle when Henry L. Turner
founded a milling enterprise here In the 1860a.
Highberger'sMillOneof
Few Survivors of Its Kind
, By r.EN MAXWELL
Highberger's Flour and
Teed mill at Aumsvllle, Mar
ion County landmark dating
far back Into hone and buggy
tlmea and framed In a manner
suggesting the architecture of
the 1860a, if one of the few
survivors of iU kind
Until a few decadei ago
' country flour milli flourished
at Champoeg, Sydney, Scott
Mills, Jefferson and elsewhere
In Marion county. Highberg
er'i mill at Aumsvllle -is one
of the few survivors from
these earlier times.
First settler In the Aums
vllle locality, says the Linn
and Marion County Atlas for
1878, was John McHaley who
arrived In 1849. This source
attributes construction of the
original mill to McHaley.
Oregon Geographic Names,
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a more reliable source, states
that Henry L. Turner, his son-
in-law, Amos Davis, erected a
flour mill here in the early
1860s when the hamlet was
called Hoggum. The name
Hoggum Is supposed to have
originated from the fact that
a great deal oi surplus wheat
was raised In the region.
Wheat, however, had but
slight market value until it
was fed to hogs that brought
a lair price. An increasing
porcine population gave the
place the name, "Hoggum."
Before the mill had been
completed Amos Davis died,
December 28, 1863, and Tur
ner, out of fondness for his
son-in-law, called the place
Amosville which soon became
corrupted to Aumsvllle. When
the poitoffice was first es
tablished nearby with Cyren-
his Condit as first postmaster
the place was called Condit
But the name was changed to
Aumsvllle when John W. Cu
sick became postmaster March
11, 1868.
When the Oregon & Calif
ornia Railway built through
Turner in the early 1870s a
good deal of Aumsville busi
ness gravitated to that nearby
railroad center. In the early
1880s, however, the narrow
guage railroad approached the
locality and enterprise reviv
ed. In 1880 M. Cockerline &
Co., were millers at Aums
ville, Joseph Asham, shoe
maker; Isaac H. Small, grocer;
Charles D. Wollford, general
merchandise and Ski dm ore
and Zumwalt, blacksmiths.
At the turn of the century
Aumsville had a population of
100. Swank & Brinkman were
proprietors of the flour mill;
William P. Gilbert operated
Aumsville hotel. T. T. Shaw
waa village dentist, Speer
Brothers had the general store
in 1903 and Lewis Bleakney,
a carpenter by trade, served
as justice of the peace. In 1900
the village had an excellent
grade school with two teach
ers: J. E. Towle, principal and
Miss Nellie Starr, assistant
Come 1913 and the town
had a population of 3S0, a
high and graded public school,
two denominational churches,
a privately owned electric
lighting system, a commer
cial club, weekly newspaper,
a flouring and sawmill and a
bank with $31,000 on deposit.
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