South Benton Communities Museum

South Benton Communities Museum HOURS : EVERY WEDNESDAY 1-4, AND 10-4 THE THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH. Email: [email protected] EVERYONE MUST WEAR A MASK AND USE THE HAND SANITIZER.

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100 years ago...Benton Lane Park, started 1926 when the pool was built by John Mallory. Along with the pool, he built a ...
04/08/2026

100 years ago...
Benton Lane Park, started 1926 when the pool was built by John Mallory. Along with the pool, he built a great dance hall. It was called Idylwild.

Back when it was Union High School. My husband’s grandfather Clare Mintonye bus driver. My daughter is descended from ...
03/20/2026

Back when it was Union High School. My husband’s grandfather Clare Mintonye bus driver. My daughter is descended from the best.

Oregon VFW Auxiliary 293 and Quilts of Valor touring South Benton Communities Historical Association Museum. Monroe, Ore...
03/19/2026

Oregon VFW Auxiliary 293 and Quilts of Valor touring South Benton Communities Historical Association Museum. Monroe, Oregon.

MARCH MADNESS!Famous 1937 Bellfountain Giant KillersAnd 1976 Monroe High School Girls Basketball team.If there are earli...
03/11/2026

MARCH MADNESS!
Famous 1937 Bellfountain Giant Killers
And
1976 Monroe High School Girls Basketball team.
If there are earlier Girls Basketball teams, please let us know. This is the earliest team picture we have.

03/04/2026

Who are you?
Unidentified Starr/Larkin family members tin type photographs.
The small, dark, metallic images are tintypes, made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of lacquered iron.
Do these look like anyone you know?

Who was Willis C. Hawley?Willis Chatman Hawley (1864 – 1941) wasa Representative from Oregon; born on a farm in the old ...
02/25/2026

Who was Willis C. Hawley?
Willis Chatman Hawley (1864 – 1941) was
a Representative from Oregon; born on a farm in the old Belknap settlement near Monroe. He served as the president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees before entering politics. He was the co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930.

This is the 1907 letter to his mother thanking her after he took the oath of office.

The Monroe Tribune newspapers scan project has begun at the University of Oregon and should be completed this summer and...
02/19/2026

The Monroe Tribune newspapers scan project has begun at the University of Oregon and should be completed this summer and uploaded to Historic Oregon Newspapers.

A future project might include the 1916 - 1918 Monroe Leader, an even older newspaper.
Thank you for your donations!

Monroe honors her veterans. Stop by the museum on Wednesdays or the last Saturday of the month and view our Veterans wa...
11/12/2025

Monroe honors her veterans. Stop by the museum on Wednesdays or the last Saturday of the month and view our Veterans wall. If you or a loved one isn't on the wall and should be bring in a photo so we can add you or them.

Museum will be there with a Monroe fire department display.
11/01/2025

Museum will be there with a Monroe fire department display.

The Monroe Tribune newspapers scan project is underway! The digital images will go through processing, Optical Characte...
08/20/2025

The Monroe Tribune newspapers scan project is underway! The digital images will go through processing, Optical Character Recognition software to make the pages keyword searchable and uploaded to Historic Oregon Newspapers. Thank you for your donations.
Next project is to scan the Map book from the old bank. This handcolored map book is extremely fragile and we rarely show it due to the delicate condition.
As you know our museum is free admission and run entirely on donations. We are nonprofit and private. We need you to visit and donate what you can!

Address

140 S 5th Street
Monroe, OR
97456

Opening Hours

1pm - 4pm

Telephone

(541) 847-7226

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