Ladd and Bush Bank Building, 302 State Street, (LL)

Salem's first financial institution, the former Ladd and Bush Bank, was founded in 1869 by Asahel Bush, II (1824-1913), a prominent figure in Salem's financial and political history. (See 1880s photograph.) In 1967 the interior was renovated, the building expanded on State Street and additional cast iron decorations from the demolished Ladd and Tilton Bank of Portland were applied on the exterior. This building is designated as a Local Landmark.
(CAN-DO)

Boot, 2545 Birdshill Drive, (D)

The earliest known owners of the 1901 house are William H Boot and wife Bertha. In 1911, two year after they moved here from Portland, their 21 year old daughter Margaret Lynn Boot married Asahel Bush, IV. The young Bush couple made their home on Bellevue Street and traveled extensively. She died in 1934, her husband a year later.
The original farmhouse has been remodeled several times. The first entrance was from the north (now City View Cemetery) leading to a carriage house, now a residence. The property has been divided and now comtains only a fraction of its acres as a prune orchard. There is a panoramic view to the west over the Willamette River and the to the coastal mountains beyond.
The owner from from 1952 to 1977 was Dilbert Milne. Hans and Helen Linde purchased the property and lived there 30 years.
(South Salem)

Valley Packing Company, Portland Road, (D)

In 1919 Curtis B. Cross, Fred and William Steusloff and A. N. Bush founded the Valley Packing Company. In 1924 an addition was made. Occupying 55 acres just west of the Southern Pacific Railway crossing on Portland Road, it was the only U.S. Inspected full-line meat processing plant in the state outside of Portland. Cascade Meats Inc.took over the plant in 1956. In 1959, the year before it closed, there were 130 employees. It is now a storage facility. Many photographs of the company's 1933 operations can be found here.
(Northgate)