Springfield Grange No. 12

From Lane Co Oregon

Springfield Grange No. 12 organized in 1873, with fourteen charter members. It was the first grange to form in Lane County. The Grange’s main object at that time was to relieve Pacific Coast farmers from paying excessive prices for farm machinery and supplies, and to invite cooperative buying and selling. Improved river transportation, free of monopolistic rate controls, was a further vital objective (Corning 1956:102). The Springfield Grange went inactive in 1880, then reorganized four years later. The organization was disbanded again in 1884. Because a grange hall was never built, the meetings were held in members’ homes (Norman pers. com. 1990; Gray pers. com. 1990).