Kilchis Jack
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Solomon Smith, I have lived most of my life in Tillamook. The road just south of the Tillamook County Creamery Asso. is named Solly Smith road. Imagine my wonder when I saw the name Solomon Smith
in Osborne Russell's book, eve dentally Solomon was a devout Methodist and was involved with Jason Lee in planting new works, (churches) in the North West.
I found out that Solomon was also involved in raising cattle, in what was called Clatsop plains near the present Warrenton Oregon. The church building still standing and in good repair is a brick building, to the left of the building is a cemetery, I like to look around cemeteries for history, and sure enough there was the grave of good old Solomon Smith.
The Oregon coast is full of history, the museum at Tillamook is a must see. It was the old Tillamook county courthouse. Inside its wall are the artifacts of yesterday, in one room you see the representation of Tillamooks first settler who lived in a hollowed out old growth stump. Inside one room is a pioneer kitchen complete with cougar hides hanging in many places, tillamook had many cougars. Their gun room houses the guns of many pioneer settlers to our area. One longrifle has a shattered fore stock, but if you look past the age the rifle has on it, you can see that it was once a real beauty, with incised carving, and deeply rifled bore. It had been converted to percussion somewhere in its distant past, perhaps during the fur trade. Another room shows the remnants of a ship wrecked on our coast sometime in the 1750's large pieces of beeswax destined for the catholic church came all the way from the Phillipines only to be cast upon our shore. Indian artifacts from a tribe that supported the residents of Tillamook county are preserved in the museum.
in Osborne Russell's book, eve dentally Solomon was a devout Methodist and was involved with Jason Lee in planting new works, (churches) in the North West.
I found out that Solomon was also involved in raising cattle, in what was called Clatsop plains near the present Warrenton Oregon. The church building still standing and in good repair is a brick building, to the left of the building is a cemetery, I like to look around cemeteries for history, and sure enough there was the grave of good old Solomon Smith.
The Oregon coast is full of history, the museum at Tillamook is a must see. It was the old Tillamook county courthouse. Inside its wall are the artifacts of yesterday, in one room you see the representation of Tillamooks first settler who lived in a hollowed out old growth stump. Inside one room is a pioneer kitchen complete with cougar hides hanging in many places, tillamook had many cougars. Their gun room houses the guns of many pioneer settlers to our area. One longrifle has a shattered fore stock, but if you look past the age the rifle has on it, you can see that it was once a real beauty, with incised carving, and deeply rifled bore. It had been converted to percussion somewhere in its distant past, perhaps during the fur trade. Another room shows the remnants of a ship wrecked on our coast sometime in the 1750's large pieces of beeswax destined for the catholic church came all the way from the Phillipines only to be cast upon our shore. Indian artifacts from a tribe that supported the residents of Tillamook county are preserved in the museum.
