Volunteers Assist Search for 19th-Century Structures in Oregon

SALEM, OREGON—Students from Willamette University and volunteers from the Oregon Archaeological Society assisted City of Salem archaeologist Kimberli Fitzgerald with the search for a parsonage constructed by Methodist missionaries in 1841, according to the Salem Reporter. The Christian missionaries sailed south from the east coast of the United States, around the tip of South America, and stopped in the Hawaiian Islands to resupply before continuing north to the coast of Oregon. The missio