Salem, Oregon Salem, Oregon City of Salem The Oregon State Capitol and downtown Salem The Oregon State Capitol and downtown Salem Flag of Salem, Oregon Salem, Oregon is positioned in the US Salem, Oregon - Salem, Oregon The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the town/city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County.
Salem was established in 1842, became the capital of the Oregon Territory in 1851, and was incorporated in 1857.
Salem had a populace of 154,637 at the 2010 census, making it the third biggest city in the state after Portland and Eugene.
Salem is the principal town/city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a urbane region that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined populace of 390,738 at the 2010 census.
The State of Oregon is the biggest enhance employer in the city, and Salem Health is the biggest private employer.
Major roads include Interstate 5, Oregon Route 99 - E, and Oregon Route 22, which joins West Salem athwart the Willamette River via the Marion Street and Center Street bridges.
When the Institute was dissolved, the trustees decided to lay out a townsite on the Institute lands. Some possible sources for the name "Salem" include William H.
Willson, who in 1850 and 1851 filed the plats for the chief part of the city, and suggested adopting an Anglicized version of the Biblical word "Shalom", meaning peace. The Reverend David Leslie, President of the town's Trustees, also wanted a Biblical name, and suggested using the last five letters of "Jerusalem". Or, the town may be titled after Salem, Massachusetts, where Leslie was educated.
There were many names suggested, and even after the change to Salem, some citizens , such as Asahel Bush (editor of the Oregon Statesman), believed the name should be changed back to Chemeketa. The Vern Miller Civic Center, which homes the town/city offices and library, has a enhance space dedicated as the Peace Plaza in recognition of the names by which the town/city has been known. Most Kalapuya citizens were moved to the Grande Ronde Reservation somewhat to the west of Salem, with lesser numbers ending up at Siletz Reservation and other Oregon and Washington reservations. The first permanent American settlement in the region was the Jason Lee Methodist mission (1840) positioned in the region north of Salem known as Wheatland. In 1842, the missionaries established the Oregon Institute (the forerunner of Willamette University) in the region that was to turn into the site of Salem.
In 1851, Salem became the territorial capital after it was moved from Oregon City.
Salem incorporated as a town/city in 1857, and with the coming of statehood in 1859, it became the state capital.
Oregon has had three capitol buildings in Salem.
Agriculture has always been meaningful to Salem, and the town/city has historically recognized and jubilated it in a number of ways.
In 1861, Salem was chosen as the permanent site of the Oregon State Fair by the Oregon State Agricultural Association. Salem is nicknamed the "Cherry City", because of the past importance of the small-town cherry-growing industry. The first cherry festival in Salem was held in 1903 and was an annual event, with parades and the election of a cherry queen, until sometime after World War I.
The event was briefly revived as the Salem Cherryland Festival for a several years in the late 1940s. Salem is positioned in the north-central Willamette Valley, in Marion and Polk counties.
The 45th Parallel (roughly the halfway point between the North Pole and the Equator) passes through Salem's town/city limits.
Although the Willamette River flows through Salem, the North Santiam River watershed is Salem's major drinking water source.
Other meaningful streams that pass through Salem are Mill Creek, the Mill Race, Pringle Creek, and Shelton Ditch. Smaller streams in the southern and southeastern parts of the town/city include Clark Creek, Jory Creek, Battle Creek, Croisan Creek, and Claggett Creek, while Glen Creek and Brush Creek flow through West Salem. Salem contains the volcanic Salem Hills in the south and is sandwiched by the 1,000 ft (300 m) Eola Hills directly to the west and the 600 ft (180 m) Waldo Hills to the east.
South and West Salem contain some canyons and are the hilliest areas.
Like most of the Willamette Valley area, Salem has a Marine West Coast climate (Koppen Csb) with some distinct characteristics of the Mediterranean climate.
Climate data for Salem, Oregon (Mc - Nary Field), 1981 2010 normals Salem is governed using the council manager government model. The town/city council consists of eight members who are propel from single member wards.
State government is Salem's biggest employer, but the town/city also serves as a core for the region farming communities and is a primary agricultural food refining center. It lies along the I-5 corridor and is inside an hour's drive of Oregon's biggest city, Portland.
NORPAC Foods, Inc., is a large food processor in Salem and elsewhere in Marion County.
Oregon Fruit Products, Inc., has been canning blackberries, marionberries and other fruits in Salem since 1935, with Oregon as its brand name.
Salem is the command posts of the Oregon Department of Corrections and home to four state correctional facilities, including the Oregon State Penitentiary, Oregon's only maximum-security prison.
7 City of Salem 1,309 Central region of Salem 1900 From May through October the Salem Saturday Market, positioned north of the Capitol, exhibits an emphasis on small-town products including crafts, baked goods, produce, meat, and other items. In addition to the Saturday Market, there is a Wednesday Farmers' Market hosted downtown in Courthouse Square amid the summer, as well a t Market in December.
The annual World Beat Festival, held in June, is sponsored by the nonprofit Salem Multicultural Institute. The event lasts for two days and is held at the Riverfront Park.
The Salem Art Association sponsors the annual Salem Art Fair and Festival, which takes place at Bush's Pasture Park amid the summer. Its displays, interactive exhibits, food, and performances attract thousands of visitors each year. The Bite of Salem, held in July at the Riverfront Park, is an event similar to the rest such as the Bite of Oregon in Portland.
The biggest event in Salem is the Oregon State Fair at the end of August through Labor Day.
Located in the Oregon State Fairgrounds in North Salem, the fair offers exhibits, competitions and carnival rides.
The Salem Film Festival has encompassed feature films that were Oregon premieres. The Salem Repertory Theatre presents shows at the Reed Opera House. The Pentacle Theatre, which features plays and musicals, is positioned in West Salem. The Elsinore Theatre is a historic landmark featuring recitals, concerts, films, and plays.
Downtown Salem looking west In addition to the Oregon State Capitol and adjoining Willson Park, Salem's downtown contains the Mission Mill Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Elsinore Theatre, Riverfront Park, the Willamette River, some of the earliest buildings in Oregon, as well as shopping and restaurants.
The two dominant candidates for the tallest building in Salem are Salem First United Methodist Church and the Capitol Center. A private survey commissioned by a small-town printed announcement holds that the church is the tallest. The tall white spire of the 1878 church rises at the intersection of Church and State Streets athwart from the Capitol grounds.
The Capitol Center (originally the First National Bank Building, then the Livesley Building) was assembled in 1927 by former Salem mayor Thomas A.
The Oregon Symphony, based in Portland, presents approximately ten classical and pops concerts each year in Salem.
The Salem Chamber Orchestra includes experienced region musicians as well as students. The Salem Armory Auditorium has hosted touring bands including Korn and Phish.
Because Salem is the state capital, it has a multitude of government agencies, departments, and boards homed in buildings with architectural designs ranging from the early 20th century to examples of state-of-the-art civil building design.
Salem has been awarded "Tree City USA" status by the National Arbor Day Foundation for 30 consecutive years for its dedication to urban forestry. Salem was the first town/city in Oregon to receive the award. In keeping with the city's "Cherry City" theme, flowering cherry trees have been planted along many Salem streets as well as on the Capitol Mall athwart from the Capitol.
The Salem Public Library's chief branch is positioned just south of downtown.
A branch library is positioned in West Salem (Polk County).
The Library participates in the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service, so Salem Public Library cards are also valid in the member libraries in Yamhill, Polk, Marion, and parts of Linn County.
In addition to the Salem Public Library the Mark O.
Salem and its environs have a multitude of wineries and vineyards that are open to the public, including Oregon's earliest winery, Honeywood Winery. Salem has one daily newspaper, the Gannett-owned Statesman Journal, and an autonomous bi-monthly alternative journal Salem Weekly.
The monthly Salem Business Journal covers company and government. The Salem Magazine, presented quarterly, both in physical and digital (online) issues, focuses upon its citizens ; its unique culture; and its downtown and encircling neighborhood communities. Northwest Television operates three tv stations that have Salem transmitters: KWVT-LD, KSLM, and KPWC, which serve an region from Longview, Washington to Eugene, Oregon.
Two stations are licensed to Salem but operate out of Portland: KPXG-TV and KRCW.
As of 2012, seven airways broadcasts broadcast from Salem, including three commercial AM stations, three non-commercial FM stations, and a improve airways broadcast.
Salem is part of the Portland Arbitron survey region for airways broadcasts, and most of the Portland stations can be received in Salem.
Stations to the south in Corvallis and Albany are also easily heard in Salem.
The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a minor league baseball team, play their home games in the town/city of Keizer, which adjoins Salem on the north.
The Willamette University Bearcats are also based in Salem, they are a Division III athletics program.
The Star City Offense, a men's roller derby team, is also based in Salem.
Salem's Department of Community Services Parks Operations Division is responsible for a park fitness encompassing 1,874 acres (758 ha) with 29.53 miles (47.52 km) of trails, 46 parks, and another 55 open and undeveloped areas. Bush's Pasture Park, a 90.5-acre (36.6 ha) urban park a several blocks south of downtown Salem, features natural groves of native Oregon White Oak trees, the historic Bush House, a rose garden, and adjoining Deepwood Estates. Other town/city parks include 101-acre (41 ha) Cascade Gateway Park and 23-acre (9.3 ha) Riverfront Park which is adjoining to downtown and the Willamette River and is home to the Salem Carousel.
Marion Square Park is downtown next to Marion Street Bridge and has a skatepark and basketball court. The skatepark also allows bicycles. Marion Square Park was laid out by town/city founder William H.
Willson, and is the next earliest municipal park in Salem after Willson Park at the Oregon State Capitol. Across the Willamette River in West Salem is the 114-acre (46 ha) Wallace Marine Park, which includes a boat ramp and floating boat dock allowing easy access to the river for water sports.
The NRHP-listed Union Street Railroad Bridge, repurposed as a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, joins Wallace Marine Park and West Salem to Riverfront Park and downtown Salem.
Salem is also home to one of the smallest town/city parks in the world, Waldo Park, which consists of a single Sequoia tree. Mill Ends Park in Portland is the smallest in the world.
The capitol grounds, which is maintained by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, cover three town/city blocks and include Willson and Capitol parks.
Other large parks positioned in the Salem region include the 1,680-acre (680 ha) Willamette Mission State Park north of the city, and Silver Falls State Park east of Salem.
Salem's central locale provides access to a wide range of recreational activities in a range of climates and geographies year round.
Salem's enhance elementary and secondary schools are part of the Salem-Keizer School District which has approximately 39,000 students and is the second biggest enhance school precinct in the state. The town/city also has many private elementary and secondary schools such as Blanchet Catholic School and Salem Academy Christian.
Salem is also home to a several enhance boarding schools, the Chemawa Indian School a Native American high school and the Oregon School for the Deaf.
Post secondary schools include Chemeketa Community College, Corban University, Tokyo International University of America and Willamette University, the earliest college in the American west. Portland State University, Eastern Oregon University, Western Oregon University and Oregon State University furnish classes and a handful of undergraduate degrees at Chemeketa Community College.
Chemeketa Area Regional Transportation System (CARTS) provides bus service that joins Salem to destinations as far north as Woodburn, as far west as Dallas, and to the east to Silverton and up the Santiam Canyon to Mill City.
Greyhound Lines provides north south service and connecting carrier service to Bend, Oregon from the Salem Amtrak station.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, leases the Salem Depot from the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Amtrak Cascades trains, operating as far north as Vancouver, British Columbia and as far south as Eugene, Oregon, serve Salem a several times daily in both directions.
Mc - Nary Field (Salem Municipal Airport) is owned and directed by the City of Salem.
Salem Hospital Regional Health Services, one of the biggest of Oregon's 57 acute care hospitals, a 454-bed acute care medical facility.
Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States; worked in Salem in 1880s Douglas Mc - Kay, mayor of Salem, State Senator, Governor of Oregon, and U.S.
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