Benjamin Williams
Ben Williams is a resident of French Prairie and President of Friends of Historic Butteville, an Oregon nonprofit that works to collect and collect the history of Butteville as well as operate the Historic Butteville Store, and restore the Butteville Landing.
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Butteville
In its heyday, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the town of Butteville, Oregon, was a major sternwheeler port on the lower Willamette River and a center of agriculture and commerce. Today it is a quiet, unincorporated residential community in northern Marion County with only two structures from …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Butteville Store
The Butteville Store was not the first trading post or mercantile in the community of Butteville in Marion County, but it was among the earliest and the only to have survived, in some form, to the present day. It is considered the oldest continuously operating retail establishment in Oregon on …
Oregon Encyclopedia
