Lyons: Yesterday and Today 1982 Linn County, Oregon Local History - Mehama - Mill City - Gates - Santiam Canyon

Title: Lyons: Yesterday and Today

Author: Katie Skillings, Ginger Griffith

Description: Staple-bound in card covers. One photo of a couple old homes has some notation in pencil on it; some light pencil underlining. Photos. Map of Lyons (September 1982). 44 pages. 8.25 x 5.25 inches.

A brief history of the city of Lyons in the Santiam Canyon area of Linn County, with biographical information (amount of detail varies) on a few old-timers and early residents, including Capt. James Lyons and the Lyons family, Floyd Boyington, Earl Allen, and the Vaughn, Bodeker, Hiatt, Johnston, and Kuiken families; local businesses; churches; the Mari-Linn school; the Santiam Valley Grange; mills and lumber companies; etc.

One of the authors was Ginger Griffith, the City Recorder, who helped collect and organize this information at the request of Effie Anderson, the mayor from 1978-1982. Lyons suffered some loss of structures in the massive wildfires of 2020.

Binding: Staple bound soft cover
Condition: Very God

Publisher: City of Lyons
Place: [Lyons, Oregon]
Year: 1982

Keywords: Oregon, history, local history, Linn County, Mehama, Gates, Santiam Valley, Santiam Canyon,