Pemberton, 1455 Commercial Street SE, (LL)

This bungalow was built in 1914 for John and Almaretta (Retta) Pemberton. Mr. Pemberton died in 1915. Mrs. Pemberton lived here for many years; in 1928 her son Ray and his wife Lenora moved to the house and lived here into the 1960s. Ray Pemberton was a physician; he graduated from Willamette University Medical School in 1910 and practiced medicine in Salem until his death in 1966.
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Truitt Brothers Cannery, Front Street NE, (D)

First owned by William Waldo, this property was developed for industry as early as 1914, a date inscribed near the roofline of handsome brick building near the river. It has been a food processing plant location under the names Salem King Products, Reid Murdock, Consolidated Foods, United States Corporation, Ltd. and now Truitt Brothers, Inc. It is one of two remaining canneries in Salem, once a national center of agriculture and food processing. See 1973 photograph.
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