Portrait of a class of elementary school students, probably from a school within or south of Hillsboro, Oregon. The photo was presented to Isa Grabel by her father on December 25, 1908. The children and their teacher, Miss Wilcox, are identified in writing on the back of the photograph.
Group portrait of an elementary class from a school in Washington County, Oregon, possibly at a church building in or near North Plains. The teacher of the class was Ruth Troutman. She and many of the students, who are named on the back of the photograph, were residents of the North Plains area.
Photograph of the Watts School in 1912. The school building later became a community club building [see WCMpic_015475 for this building in 1953]. The Watts School is west of Forest Grove, Oregon, near the intersection of NW Gales Creek Rd and NW Stringtown Rd. The school is named after James Grant Watts, who helped to draft a city charter for Scappoose, a town just north of Washington County's border with Columbia County. His great-grandfather William Watts settled on a Donation Land Claim in Scappoose in 1852, making the Watts family one of the first European families to settle in the area.
Photograph of the new Hillsboro Fire Truck in 1939. It is parked outside of station number 2, which is currently [2012] in a newer building on Drake Road in Hillsboro.