Portrait of the Honorable Jesse Clemens Moore (September 3, 1830-October 11, 1905). He served two years as the Washington County Assessor and in the 1860s was elected and served three successive terms at the Washington County Sheriff. He later was elected and served two terms in the Oregon State legislature. He lived in Greenville, Oregon.
Portrait of Ella LaVina (Schlegel) Turner, born May 14, 1883 in Buxton, Oregon and died October 1, 1947 in Hillsboro, Oregon. Her parents emigrated to Oregon in 1877 and she married Ewell T. Turner after attending the Harrison School.
Greenville was founded in the 1870s by Franklin Pierce, who emigrated to Oregon in 1852. It was a supply center for those who lived between Buxton and Forest Grove, and the town was located 2 miles south of present-day Banks. A post office was established in 1871, and Franklin Pierce opened a store in 1874. The Post Office closed in 1907, and the town is now virtually non-existent.
Photo of the first store in Banks, built about 1901 on North Main Street near Banks Road. Brothers Montgomery 'Gum' Turner (born 1866) and Ewell Turner (born 1870) founded the store, and Ewell ran the store for four years while Gum returned to Kentucky to settle his affairs and prepare to move his family to Oregon. Gum took charge of the mercantile business when he arrived back in Banks, about 1904.
Group photo of the Banks baseball team, The Stars, taken about 1906. Standing, left to right, is Jack Vandomelen, Charles Wunderlich, George Reiben, Will Young, Mort Rainwater, Ellis Taylor, and Otis K. Purdin. Seated, left to right, is Roy Fields, John Miller (the Manager) and Billy McPherson.
Group photo of families who resided in Banks in the early 1900s. John Schlegal Jr. is in the second row, third from left (long white beard), and Edwin S. Schlegal is in the back row, second from right, wearing striped clothing. Clause Williams, the tall man in the back of the picture in the white shirt, is pictured with his wife Mable (Northrup) Williams, who stands in front of him.
The Peppard house was built in 1895 in Greenville by the 'mayor' of Banks, William Moore. In 1905, Moore moved the house 2 miles north to its present site on Market Street in Banks.
Photo of the brick yard that stood near Wilksboro. It was powered by a steam engine and drew its raw materials from the surrounding land. The building no longer stands, but there are still impressions in the land just west of the railroad tracks from years of digging out material for bricks.
