One Hundred Years of Timber Culture in Oregon: Celebrating the Legacy and the Land of Maxville
Thursday, March 2, 2023 5:30pm to 7:30pm
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2501 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331
Gwendolyn Trice, Executive Director of the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, comes to OSU to speak on the legacy of the multiethnic logging company town of Maxville, Oregon in 1923. In the 1920s, the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Company recruited skilled Black loggers from the southern US to Wallowa County when Oregon’s Black exclusion laws were still in place. 100 years after the town’s founding, the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center has purchased the land of and surrounding historic Maxville; this site is now owned by a Black led non-profit directed by a descendant of one of the first logger families that were recruited to work at Maxville.
Come celebrate this historic milestone in Oregon’s living Black history with us. A reception will immediately follow the talk.
A Black History Month Event. Free, open to all. Presented by the Center for the Humanities.
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