The community was named after pioneers Harmon and Jemima Thatcher, who came from Indiana soon after their marriage in 1847, first settling in Yamhill County, and later taking up a Donation Land Claim in the area that now bears their name.[4][5]
A Thatcher post office was established in 1895 and closed in 1902, with the introduction of rural free delivery.[4][5] According to author Ralph Friedman, as of 1990, nothing remained at the site to indicate a settlement was there[6]
The Thatcher post office was located at 5901 Thatcher Road. The building that formerly housed the post office and the surrounding land was purchased by Carl and Wilma Mayer in 1941. It became their personal family residence until their deaths in 1996. The main post office building is set to be demolished in May 2014. Directly across the road from the old post office building is the Thatcher Grange Hall. The post office land is still owned by descendants of Carl and Wilma Mayer.[7]
thatcher, oregon, thatcher, unincorporated, historic, community, washington, county, oregon, united, states, located, approximately, three, miles, north, forest, grove, intersection, hillside, thatcher, roads, area, part, forest, grove, rural, fire, protection. Thatcher is an unincorporated historic community in Washington County Oregon United States 1 It was located approximately three miles north of Forest Grove at the intersection of Hillside and Thatcher roads 2 The area is part of the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District 3 A house at Thatcher along Kansas City Road The community was named after pioneers Harmon and Jemima Thatcher who came from Indiana soon after their marriage in 1847 first settling in Yamhill County and later taking up a Donation Land Claim in the area that now bears their name 4 5 A Thatcher post office was established in 1895 and closed in 1902 with the introduction of rural free delivery 4 5 According to author Ralph Friedman as of 1990 nothing remained at the site to indicate a settlement was there 6 The Thatcher post office was located at 5901 Thatcher Road The building that formerly housed the post office and the surrounding land was purchased by Carl and Wilma Mayer in 1941 It became their personal family residence until their deaths in 1996 The main post office building is set to be demolished in May 2014 Directly across the road from the old post office building is the Thatcher Grange Hall The post office land is still owned by descendants of Carl and Wilma Mayer 7 References edit Thatcher historical Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey United States Department of the Interior November 28 1980 Retrieved August 12 2011 Oregon Atlas amp Gazetteer 7th ed Yarmouth Maine DeLorme 2008 p 21 ISBN 0 89933 347 8 County Bridges amp Fire District Boundaries PDF Washington County Retrieved June 23 2014 a b McArthur Lewis A McArthur Lewis L 2003 1928 Oregon Geographic Names 7th ed Portland Oregon Oregon Historical Society Press p 945 ISBN 978 0875952772 a b Gaston Joseph George H Himes 1912 The Centennial History of Oregon 1811 1912 Vol 3 S J Clarke Publishing Co pp 504 509 Friedman Ralph 1990 In Search of Western Oregon Caldwell Idaho The Caxton Printers Ltd p 291 ISBN 0 87004 332 3 Carl amp Wilma Mayer Family History amp PhotographsExternal links editImages of Thatcher from Flickr 45 33 53 N 123 08 29 W 45 564836 N 123 141498 W 45 564836 123 141498 nbsp This Washington County Oregon state location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Thatcher Oregon amp oldid 1167681966, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
