Butteville, Oregon
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Butteville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 273. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statist
The historic Butteville Store, established in 1863
Town plat from survey by R. V. Short in 1859, currently on display inside the Butteville Store.
Church in Butteville
Champoeg, Oregon
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Champoeg is a former town in the U.S. state of Oregon. Now a ghost town, it was an important settlement in the Willamette Valley in the early 1840s. Located halfway between Oregon City and Salem, it w
Butteville, Oregon
…was once served by steamboats running on the Willamette River. Butteville saw the peak of its economy in the 1850s, as it competed with neighboring Champoeg for shipping business from the surrounding French Prairie. Most of Butteville's early residents were French-Canadian. Butteville is in northern Marion…
Museum at the state heritage area
Location near neighboring cities
The 1901 monument in Champoeg marking the spot where the first American government on the Pacific Coast was organized.
A stake marks the former location of a street corner in Champoeg.