Editing Mill Street (Springfield)

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=1850s=
*According to an article in the [[Eugene Register]] dated July 4, [[1891]], the first store was opened in [[1852]] by [[Huddleston, James|James Huddleston]] on the east bank of the [[Willamette River]] as a trading post in [[Springfield]], near [[Mill Street_(Springfield)|Mill]] and [[Main Street_(Springfield)|Main Street]].

*In [[1853]], a small trading post was kept by [[Donalds, J.N.|J.N. Donalds]] near the corner of present-day [[Mill Street (Springfield)|Mill]] and [[Main Street (Springfield)|Main Streets]] (Walling 1884:452).

*[[Springfield]] was platted in [[1856]], at which time two blocks between [[South A Street (Springfield)|South A]], [[Main Street (Springfield)|Main]], [[Mill Street (Springfield)|Mill]], and [[3rd Street (Springfield)|Third Street]]s were laid out into eight lots each. The lots measured 66x120 feet, with streets 66 feet in width and alleys 14 feet wide. Though the town was oriented to the [[Willamette River]], it developed along a standard grid system that was aligned to the four cardinal directions.

*Throughout its history, the [[Mill Pond]] served as a popular place to gather for picnics, canoing, fishing, and swimming. For a time, a diving board and changing room were erected at the corner of Mill and [[28th Street (Springfield)| 28th]].

=1880s=

*The school district replaced the pioneer school building in the 1880s. The [[Mill Street School]], as it was called, was only a one-story, two-room building, which the student population quickly outgrew. The school was the first of a series of schoolhouses to occupy the [[Mill Street (Springfield)|Mill]] and [[D Street (Springfield)|D Street]] site that now holds the present school administration building, which was built in [[1921]] as a high school (Graham 1978a).

*There is evidence that a cheese factory was in operation on [[Mill Street (Springfield)|Mill Street]] until [[1889]], when the factory building was converted into a school (Graham 1978a).

Mill Street School was forced to move its students in [[1889]] to a former cheese factory, which served as a school until circa [[1910]]. A new schoolhouse was constructed at the old [[Mill Street School]] site in [[1890]] (Kraus 1970:25). Between [[1907]] and [[1912]], this building was enlarged and converted to a high school. Three schools outside the city limits were built during this period – [[Mt. Vernon Elementary|Mt. Vernon]] on [[South 42nd Street (Springfield)|South 42nd Street]] (1880s and c.[[1905]]), Maple School at 26th and Main (c.1900), and Hayden Bridge School (c.1910). A [[Thurston High School|high school]] in the community of [[Thurston area|Thurston]] was constructed in [[1913]] (Jones 1958:32). The Hayden Bridge and Mt. Vernon schools are extant.

=1900s=

[[Image:Businesses on Mill Street 1900.JPG]]

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