Bruffey Rooming House, later the telephone central office
probably Sally (Johnson) and John Bruffey on the porch
Lot 29, across the street from the current post office
Bruffey Rooming House -
Mr. & Mrs. John Bruffey ? - 1913
Telephone office - J. Ed Oliver 1913 - 1915
Telephone office - Art Ecklund ? - 1920’s
Telephone office - Ella (Oneall) Davenport 1930’s?
Telephone office - Linda Lee 1940’s? - 1950?
Woodburn Fire Hall 1980’s? - present
Prior to 1913 the telephone exchange was in Harken's Clothing Store, then in J.Ed Oliver's home from 1910-1913. In 1904 there was a large fire in the business district and newspaper noted the telephone exchange owned by W.D. Harken & Son was burned out, but the switchboard was saved.
Phone directory from late 1950's - early 1960's?
Click once on it, then click again when it brings it up and it should be readable.
Click once on it, then click again when it brings it up and it should be readable.
4 comments:
A well with good drinking water was just to the south of the phone office. As kids, we always drank from it on hot days, using the tin cup which hung from a wire. The water was better than that from Cottrell's pump down the street.
Clare Keeney
Thanks, Clare! This is great info, these type of memories add so much to the story of Woodburn.
My mom's aunt and uncle, Jane and Will Forster used to live in Woodburn. Will owned and operated the Forster Funeral Home for decades When I was a child in the 1950's our family often visited the Forsters. I can recall all the trains that used to pass through town. The Forsters used to live fairly close to the railroad tracks. They had a detached garage and both the front and back porches were screened in. Does anyone remember the Forsters?
Dave,
We don't personally remember the Forsters, but gathered a lot of memories of them from townspeople when putting together the history. I show on a map that townspeople helped us with of the residences that they lived in east Woodburn on the street north of the funeral home. Steve's dad farmed the "Forster place", a farm that was about 4 miles west of Woodburn on Highway 34 and knew Ruth Forster Tomlinson well. His dad, Darrell, of course knew Bill and Jennie well. If you want to email me at woodburnbook at gmail. com (substitute @ for at) I can send you some of the info we gathered. Thanks for posting!
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