History buffs creating roadmap to Springfield’s past

PHOTO PROVIDED / SPRINGFIELD HISTORY MUSEUM This undated photograph depicts Native men from the Warm Springs Reservation riding horses past the Springfield Hotel at 3rd and Main Streets. Likely hop-pickers for the Seavey farm, these men represent Indigenous seasonal farm workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The tribes of the Willamette Valley were both the area's original inhabitants and its first migrant workers.

■ Editor’s note: This month, The Chronicle looks at Springfield’s past through the lens of three history buffs as they prepare to launch “Historic Atlas of Springfield, Oregon,” a 200-plus page organized collection of Springfield’s history and development.

SPRINGFIELD—After years of compiling, tracking down and connecting the dots, a trio of local historians is reinvigorating Springfield history through “The Historical Atlas of Springfield, Oregon,” a 200-plus-page book set to debut this summer.

The Atlas is…

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