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The Forest Grove Station is now owned by Friends of Historical Forest Grove, which is the town's historical society, The former Oregon Electric line from Tigard to Eugene is now operated by the Portland & Western Railroad. BN donated the track from Tigard to Quinaby (a farming community north of Keizer) to the State of Oregon and sold the track ...
A company called the Forest Grove Transportation Company operated local streetcar service that linked downtown to Carnation, Oregon, where the Oregon & California Railroad built its depot, but the service lasted only from 1906 to 1911. [6] [10] The Red Electric passenger service to Forest Grove ended in 1929 and Oregon Electric's ceased in 1932 ...
Interstate 5 is the second-longest freeway in Oregon, at 308 miles (496 km), and is the only Interstate to traverse the state from north to south. [4] The highway connects several of the state's largest metropolitan areas, which lie in the Rogue and Willamette valleys, [5] and passes through counties with approximately 81 percent of Oregon's population. [6]
OR 47 south – Banks, Forest Grove: Interchange; east end of OR 47 overlap: Tillamook Junction: 47 53.33: OR 6 – Banks, Tillamook: Interchange; no westbound entrance 47 53.62: West end of freeway 47 55.19: 55: Dersham Road – Mountaindale: North Plains: 47 57.16: 57: Glencoe Road – North Plains 47 58.74: 59: Jackson School Road: Hillsboro ...
The Oregon Electric Railway completed the 19.1-mile (30.7 km) branch from its main line at Garden Home to Forest Grove in 1908. [1] At the time of completion the branch, like the main line, was electrified at 600 V DC. This was converted to 1,200 V DC in 1912. [2] Passenger service ended on the Forest Grove branch in July 1932. [3]
Tabitha Moffatt Brown (May 1, 1780 – May 4, 1858) was an American pioneer colonist who traveled the Oregon Trail to the Oregon Country. There she assisted in the founding of Tualatin Academy, which would grow to become Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. [1] Brown was honored in 1987 by the Oregon Legislature as the "Mother of Oregon ...
The first highway in the corridor was the Capitol Highway (Highway 3), from Portland to Salem via Dayton (roughly present OR 99W and OR 221).In 1927 it was merged with the West Side Highway, which ran from Dayton to Junction City, to form the West Side Pacific Highway, still numbered 3, and a western loop of the Pacific Highway (Highway 1/U.S. Route 99).
Oregon Route 219 (also known as part of the Hillsboro-Silverton Highway No. 140 (see Oregon highways and routes)) is an Oregon state highway which runs between the cities of Hillsboro and Woodburn, Oregon, in the United States. The Hillsboro-Silverton Highway continues further south to Silverton, signed as OR 214.