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Heritage Museum: Overview (photo diary) [1]
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Date: 2025-05-19
The Clatsop County Historical Society’s Heritage Museum in Astoria, Oregon, was originally designed and built as Astoria’s city hall. The two-story high Neo-Classical structure was constructed on the site of the Fort Astoria cemetery. The city hall was dedicated on July 4, 1905.
Shown above is a model of a 32’ wheel that used dog power to churn butter.
Shown above is a detail of the model.
Shown above is the pulpit of the First Lutheran Church which was built in 1893.
Shown above is an exhibit on prostitution in Astoria.
According to the Museum:
“In the 19th century upper-class clientele visited parlor house brothels, while bawdy houses catered to the lower-class.”
In 1858, prostitution was a $6.3 million business making it larger than shipping and brewing combined. According to the Museum:
“Prostitution was illegal under vagrancy laws, but was not well enforced by police and city officials. Difficult to suppress, anti-prostitution ordinances often did little more than try to confine brothels and parlors to certain districts of the community. Other laws fined the ‘houses’ and ladies as a form of taxation. Obviously, it was a lucrative revenue source.”
Shown above is a player piano.
Shown above is a plow.
Shown below are some details from the Museum’s sign.
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