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"Short History of the Little Nestucca River Valley and Its Early Pioneers" written about South Tillamook County, Oregon
The page below was written by Mrs. Hardy Rock (Alexandria LEY Rock) and published in 1949. NVMS students have retyped her history so that many may read it. Although some punctuation errors have been corrected the text remains as written by Mrs. Rock.
Note that Alexandria LEY Rock's "Short History of the Little Nestucca River Valley and Its Early Pioneers" has been republished in book form as of January 2007 and is now being offered for sale by the Tillamook County Historical Society!
p. 41 Sunday School continued
(This page was typed by Sarah, NVMS 7th grader, during the fall of 2002 and edited by Dean Bones.)
In 1901, T. A. Porter and family with Wm. Redberg and family organized a Sunday School which was continued until the present time.
Miss Edith Graves, assisted by Mrs. Hardy Rock and Mrs. Jessie Follett Miles conducted a Sunday School in the Meda School House during the period Miss Graves was school teacher there.
At Neskowin, Sunday School has been held intermittently, except while Reverend Adolph Gahl held services there regularly. The attendance was composed largely from the Neskowin resort, it being close to the school house.
All these Sunday Schools have been nonsectarian.
The first store to supply the earliest settlers was at old Grand Ronde on top of the hill beside the Phil Sheridan House. The owner, John Gilbert Litchfield, was a kind hearted man who would stake most the settlers for the first five years, the time required for them to live on their homesteads to prove up on them. Provisions were packed on pack oxen and mules over the Indian Trail requiring six days to make the trip to Grand Ronde and back.
Ed Faulconer of Sheridan opened a store on a hill overlooking Nestucca Bay and near the early home of Chris Christensen. He sold out to John Rock (brother of Hardy rock who operated it until death in 1889), after which Hardy Rock sold the stock and closed the store.
While Wallace Yates (brother of A. O. Yates and early homesteader) was Postmaster at Meda, he carried a small grocery stock. When the Salmon Cannery was built, the overseer, Joe Thoman, kept a stock of groceries for the fisherman.
Some distance north of the cannery, a stock of groceries owned by Chas. Ray was carried in the Dock at the point on Nestucca Bay for awhile. Jim Whitman, Joe Etzwiler, Lester Ray and Chas. Roosa had charge of the store at different times during several years.
After the dock was built at the north end of the Lower Little Nestucca Bridge, Jim Whitman had charge there of a stock of groceries and feed for Gray Bros.
About
the year 1926, Mrs. Martha Carver (now Mrs. Jake Gasho) opened a fish and clam
shop at the north end of the bridge over Little Nestucca River, and she still
operates a clam shop there. When Mrs. Hardy Rock became Postmaster at
Oretown,
she carried a small stock of groceries in the old Redberg house near the cheese
factory, and she continued the store when she moved to the new building north
of the Church. After Mrs. Rock resigned as Postmaster, Mrs. Gertie Porter
Redberg became Acting Postmaster and carried a large and more complete stock
which she moved to the new store building situated south of the Oretown Church.
Here she and husband, John Redberg, carried a complete grocery stock in a modern
conducted store until 1948, when they sold out to A. R. Mclean. This is the
only store at Oretown.
A grocery store was opened at Neskowin before 191? , by Jim Myers. It is still in the same building and has had many operators. Among them were Ernest Edmunds, Mrs. Luella Sutton and others, also the Frank Brothers. This store supplies the Neskowin Resort with groceries.
Continue to page 42 of "Short History of the Little Nestucca River Valley and Its Early Pioneers!"