George Morgan crossed the plains to Oregon in 1845 as a pioneer, and died in 1924. Today, you can visit his grave at the Gales Creek Cemetery. This and more in the news from a century ago.

A former Banks legislator dies by gun accident just months after his car was found in the river, a dance held in Timber and more in news from a century ago.

Watts Community Club has chicken dinner, and other comings and goings from April 10, 1924 in Banks and Gales Creek.

Attempts to build a highway to the coast continue, a Dilley man chops a fingertip off at the sawmill and more from 1924.

A private fish hatchery near Mountaindale provides 5,000 trout to a Gales Creek man, and an accused moonshiner takes his own life in this week’s dispatches from history.

A century ago, the Banks American Legion had a membership drive, and the Gales Creek Stage meant there were better mass transit options in the valley than there are today.

Three men in the Washington County Jail on various charges related to moonshine and Prohibition escaped via the roof, “swinging to trees” in 1924. This and more in the news of a century ago.

Forest Grove solves a problem with the help of Gales Creek, a Banks man establishes a hospital in Forest Grove and more from a century ago in the news.