Bob & Delia's Guidebook

Bob & Delia
Bob & Delia's Guidebook

Food scene

Annette's Westgate is located in the historic Kingwood building. The Kingwood building originated as the Kingwood Market starting in 1928. Since then, the building has undergone as many renovations as occupants; however, it has never lost its historic style. As a matter of fact, you can still see the old West Salem Library from almost every seat in the dining room. Westgate Cafe was established in 1953, and since that time has been dedicated to serving the townsfolk of West Salem a heaping good plate of food. We continue today with that same principle. Your host, Annette Day, welcomes you to Annette's Westgate as she would into her own kitchen. We hope your are made to feel welcome and well cared for while you are here! Well known for our portions, Annette's is the perfect place to bring your empty stomach. With entrees like six egg omelets, massive burgers, and the best chicken fried steak in town, how can you pass it up? After 4 pm, Annette's transforms. Our candle-lit atmosphere is a great place for any occasion. With a huge menu selection, everyone will be happy! Don't forget to try a local wine with dinner and try to save room for dessert! Great things come in small packages, just like our bar. With a Cheers-like atmosphere, fun and friendly staff and video lottery, the lounge at Annette's will be the place you'll want everyone to know your name. We also have an event room with room for 48. We offer fantastic service and a cozy atmosphere.
12 recommandé par les habitants
Annette's Westgate
1311 Edgewater St NW
12 recommandé par les habitants
Annette's Westgate is located in the historic Kingwood building. The Kingwood building originated as the Kingwood Market starting in 1928. Since then, the building has undergone as many renovations as occupants; however, it has never lost its historic style. As a matter of fact, you can still see the old West Salem Library from almost every seat in the dining room. Westgate Cafe was established in 1953, and since that time has been dedicated to serving the townsfolk of West Salem a heaping good plate of food. We continue today with that same principle. Your host, Annette Day, welcomes you to Annette's Westgate as she would into her own kitchen. We hope your are made to feel welcome and well cared for while you are here! Well known for our portions, Annette's is the perfect place to bring your empty stomach. With entrees like six egg omelets, massive burgers, and the best chicken fried steak in town, how can you pass it up? After 4 pm, Annette's transforms. Our candle-lit atmosphere is a great place for any occasion. With a huge menu selection, everyone will be happy! Don't forget to try a local wine with dinner and try to save room for dessert! Great things come in small packages, just like our bar. With a Cheers-like atmosphere, fun and friendly staff and video lottery, the lounge at Annette's will be the place you'll want everyone to know your name. We also have an event room with room for 48. We offer fantastic service and a cozy atmosphere.
Xicha Brewing [chee-chah] [broo-ing] is the Pacific Northwest’s only Latinx brewery located in West Salem, Oregon. We aim to offer an inclusive, family-friendly cultural environment by creating community around high quality, fresh Latin American food and house-brewed European ales and lagers. Our goal is to honor Latin American traditions while constantly seeking out opportunities where those traditions creatively collide with new ideas. Location 576 Patterson St. NW, Suite 140, Salem, OR 97304. Hours Sunday: 11am to 8pm Monday: Closed Tuesday: 11am to 9pm Wednesday: 11am to 9pm Thursday: 11am to 9pm Friday: 11am to 10pm Saturday: 11am to 10pm
10 recommandé par les habitants
Xicha Brewing Co.
576 Patterson St NW
10 recommandé par les habitants
Xicha Brewing [chee-chah] [broo-ing] is the Pacific Northwest’s only Latinx brewery located in West Salem, Oregon. We aim to offer an inclusive, family-friendly cultural environment by creating community around high quality, fresh Latin American food and house-brewed European ales and lagers. Our goal is to honor Latin American traditions while constantly seeking out opportunities where those traditions creatively collide with new ideas. Location 576 Patterson St. NW, Suite 140, Salem, OR 97304. Hours Sunday: 11am to 8pm Monday: Closed Tuesday: 11am to 9pm Wednesday: 11am to 9pm Thursday: 11am to 9pm Friday: 11am to 10pm Saturday: 11am to 10pm
THE COZY TABERNA The Cozy Taberna is a social restaurant with a shared plate experience. Offering a taste of Spain's influence with craveable offerings. As a taberna should be, we'll have a huge cocktail bar, Spanish inspired wine list, and 24 taps of crafted goodness! We also offer a cozy lower lounge with comfortable seating, craft beverages, and screens.
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The Cozy Taberna
249 Liberty Street Northeast
7 recommandé par les habitants
THE COZY TABERNA The Cozy Taberna is a social restaurant with a shared plate experience. Offering a taste of Spain's influence with craveable offerings. As a taberna should be, we'll have a huge cocktail bar, Spanish inspired wine list, and 24 taps of crafted goodness! We also offer a cozy lower lounge with comfortable seating, craft beverages, and screens.
Amadeus is a family owned and operated contemporary American Restaurant located downtown Salem, Oregon. Amadeus features a great happy hour from 3:30-5:30pm and 8pm to close- and ALL NIGHT TUESDAYS! Try the harissa chicken or one of our thin crust pizzas. The Amadeus dinner menu is as diverse as it is delicious. Classics such as the Painted Hills Brisket or the creamy Shrimp and Bacon Risotto are served nightly! Book your holiday or birthday party in one of the beautiful private dining spaces soon!
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Amadeus Restaurant
135 Liberty St NE
19 recommandé par les habitants
Amadeus is a family owned and operated contemporary American Restaurant located downtown Salem, Oregon. Amadeus features a great happy hour from 3:30-5:30pm and 8pm to close- and ALL NIGHT TUESDAYS! Try the harissa chicken or one of our thin crust pizzas. The Amadeus dinner menu is as diverse as it is delicious. Classics such as the Painted Hills Brisket or the creamy Shrimp and Bacon Risotto are served nightly! Book your holiday or birthday party in one of the beautiful private dining spaces soon!
FAMILY, COMMUNITY & GREAT FOOD IN SALEM Our love of food, family and community are the backbone of Ritter’s Housemade Foods. We wanted to create a place where people can gather, eat good food and share in community. We are committed to our locale and strive to highlight the best of what the Willamette Valley has to offer. We are fortunate and take pride in sourcing local, seasonal, and organic ingredients in our housemade recipes. Our close relationships with companies such as, Rudio Creek Ranch, Oregon Olive Mill, Governor’s Cup Coffee Roasters, Santiam Brewery, Durant Vineyards, Bonta Gelato, Cascade Baking Co, Silver Falls Bread Co, and Freddy Guys Hazelnuts allow us to partner with some of the best local purveyors the Valley has to offer. Our region is known worldwide for its wines and we proudly feature many local wineries and breweries. We acknowledge the importance of being an environmentally conscious company that contributes to the well being of the environment and community. All of our take out materials are recyclable and/or compostable. Many of our patrons have dietary needs and we strive to offer something for everyone. Our goal is for you to have an enjoyable, welcoming and delicious experience. Brother and sister team, Mike and Jessica Ritter and their entire crew, welcome you to Ritter’s.
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Ritter's Housemade Foods
102 Liberty St NE
32 recommandé par les habitants
FAMILY, COMMUNITY & GREAT FOOD IN SALEM Our love of food, family and community are the backbone of Ritter’s Housemade Foods. We wanted to create a place where people can gather, eat good food and share in community. We are committed to our locale and strive to highlight the best of what the Willamette Valley has to offer. We are fortunate and take pride in sourcing local, seasonal, and organic ingredients in our housemade recipes. Our close relationships with companies such as, Rudio Creek Ranch, Oregon Olive Mill, Governor’s Cup Coffee Roasters, Santiam Brewery, Durant Vineyards, Bonta Gelato, Cascade Baking Co, Silver Falls Bread Co, and Freddy Guys Hazelnuts allow us to partner with some of the best local purveyors the Valley has to offer. Our region is known worldwide for its wines and we proudly feature many local wineries and breweries. We acknowledge the importance of being an environmentally conscious company that contributes to the well being of the environment and community. All of our take out materials are recyclable and/or compostable. Many of our patrons have dietary needs and we strive to offer something for everyone. Our goal is for you to have an enjoyable, welcoming and delicious experience. Brother and sister team, Mike and Jessica Ritter and their entire crew, welcome you to Ritter’s.
Fresh • Local • Affordable At Gamberetti’s we believe a meal should feed you and your soul. We love supporting our local farmers and use sustainable, natural, and organic ingredients whenever possible. It's that belief that drives our mission... Fresh, Local, Affordable.
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Gamberetti's
325 High St SE
19 recommandé par les habitants
Fresh • Local • Affordable At Gamberetti’s we believe a meal should feed you and your soul. We love supporting our local farmers and use sustainable, natural, and organic ingredients whenever possible. It's that belief that drives our mission... Fresh, Local, Affordable.

City/town information

Salem, the capital of Oregon, is located at a crossroads of trade and travel on former prairie lands along the Willamette River. The city was designated the seat of Marion County in 1849 and the territorial capital in 1851-1852. Incorporated in 1857, Salem served as the de facto state capital beginning in 1859 and, by popular vote, became the official capital in 1864. It is on the site of one of the earliest American settlements in the Oregon Country, a Methodist mission established by Jason Lee in 1841 near the Kalapuyan village of Tchimikiti. Lee established a town near the mission, which he named Chemeketa. In 1846, William Willson renamed it Salem, from the Arabic word salam, which means peace. To the south of the city are the Salem Hills, originally called the Red Hills, a midvalley geologic formation of ancient Jory soils. To the north is Lake Labish, a marshland drained in the early twentieth century to create agricultural land, and to the east farms and small towns meet the foothills of the Cascade Range. Salem’s western boundary ended at the Willamette River until 1949, when West Salem was incorporated into the city. The city is in two counties, Marion to the east of the Willamette River and Polk to the west. Salem is drained by Mill Creek (Chemeketa Creek) and Pringle Creek (Harbor Creek), tributaries of the Willamette River. During the nineteenth century, the two creeks were joined by mill races to operate sawmills, grist mills, and woolen mills. Salem gets its water from the North Fork of the Santiam River, which was joined to Mill Creek by the Salem Ditch in 1857 to create better mill-race flows and provide clean drinking water. Salem vies with Eugene as the second most populous city in Oregon (after Portland). The city’s population was 1,137 in 1870, and it has doubled or tripled every decade since, with the most dramatic change occurring between 1870 and 1880, when the population grew by 122 percent. In 2020, the city had 175,535 residents, 23 percent of them Latinx. Early Resettlement In 1841, Lee moved his mission from French Prairie to Chemeketa, where he built a sawmill and a grist mill. His house, the first permanent non-Native residence in the region, was built in 1842. The Great Reinforcement of Methodist missionary families, recruited by Jason Lee, arrived on the Lausanne in 1840. Over the next three years, more than a thousand people traveled the Oregon Trail to the Willamette Valley, and many claimed land near the mission. By 1844, Lee’s mission school was closed and the property transferred to William Willson, who platted the town. Salem had grown enough by 1851 to be named the territorial capital. The city’s influence on territorial politics increased when Asahel Bush and Samuel R. Thurston moved their newspaper, the Oregon Statesman, there in 1853. Bush used the publication to argue policy with Thomas Dryer of the Whig/Republican Oregonian in Portland, a public battle of wits that became known as Oregon-Style Journalism. The newspaper merged with the Capital Journal in 1980 to become the Statesman Journal. The Salem area was opened to further resettlement when the U.S. government removed the Kalapuyans to the Grand Ronde Reservation in 1856. The only documented Native-white conflict in the area had occurred in the Salem Hills at Battle Creek in 1846, when the Oregon Rangers, a volunteer militia, attacked a group of Klamaths and Wascoes because they had stolen a horse. The militia eventually apologized for their overreaction. Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom imageSlide carouosel leftSlide carousel right123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 Economy The largest employer in Salem is the Oregon state government, and the State Capitol Building and Mall are the most prominent features of the city. Town founders William and Chloe Willson donated land for the territorial capitol building, and construction began in 1854. The project stumbled when the seat of government moved to Corvallis in 1855 for one session, but construction continued and the legislature moved in by December 1855, a little more than a week before the structure burned down. In 1935, fire destroyed a second capitol, built in 1876-1893. The current capitol was built in 1938. The Oregon State Hospital and Oregon State Penitentiary are in Salem, along with the Oregon Department of Corrections and the Santiam Correctional Institution. Agriculture and ranching were Salem’s earliest industries. In 1847, nurseryman Henderson Seth Lewelling arrived in the Willamette Valley with hundreds of seedlings, many of them Royal Anne cherry trees. Orchardists were so successful with the crop that Salem was named the Cherry City of the World in 1907, when the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen judged that it had “the greatest and finest display of cherries known in history.” Salem held an annual Cherry City Festival from 1903 to 1967, and berries remain an important crop in the area. Agriculture still dominates the Salem economy, and NORPAC, the state’s largest vegetable-and-fruit-canning cooperative, has been in business in the city since 1924. John Minto, Joseph Watt, and Daniel Waldo opened the Willamette Woolen Mills in Salem in 1857, and the Oregon Wool Growers Association was formed in 1865, “the first permanent organization of wool men in Oregon.” The Thomas Kay Woolen Mills opened in 1889 and was soon the second largest woolen mill on the West Coast. After the mill closed in 1962, it was repurposed as the Mission Mill Museum. By 1866, the Capital Lumbering Company had built a major sawmill in Salem, and Oregon Pulp and Paper built a plant on the Willamette River in 1919. When Boise Cascade purchased both facilities in 1962, production operations included settling ponds for effluents across the Willamette Slough on Minto-Brown Island. Environmental concerns, including air pollution and water quality, caused a strain on profits, and the company ended pulp production in 1982 and paper production in 2007. The City of Salem reclaimed the land and opened it to condominiums and a riverfront park. On Minto-Brown Island, the former settling ponds are now an ecological preserve managed by the Audubon Society. Major businesses in Salem include Amazon, Garmen, Kettle Foods, Don Pancho, NORPAC, Kerr Concentrates, Henningsen Cold Storage, Freres Lumber, May Trucking, and the Meier and Frank Department Store (sold to the May Department Stores in 1966). Salem has three sister cities: Tamil Nodu, India; Simferopol, Ukraine; and Växjö, Sweden. Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Thomas Kay stands third from rightZoom image Zoom image Mary Fraser was the proprietorZoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Oregon Territorial and State Legislatures met here, 1857-1876. Destroyed in 1951.Zoom image 1876 Capitol Building.Zoom image Zoom image Post office and old capitol in the distanceZoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image North front of the State Capitol, Salem, soon after the building was occupied, 1938-1939.Zoom imageSlide carouosel leftSlide carousel right12345678910111213141516171819202122 Education Salem is a center of research and education for the Willamette Valley. The Oregon State Archives and Oregon State Library are near the capitol, as is Willamette University, the oldest four-year university west of the Mississippi. Chemeketa Community College opened in 1970, and Corban University moved to Salem in 1969. Forty thousand students attend schools in the Salem-Keizer School District (Keizer is a city of about 36,000 people north of Salem). Chemawa Indian School, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, moved from Forest Grove to Salem in 1885; and Blanchet Academy, a Catholic high school, opened in 1995. The Oregon School for the Deaf has operated in the city since 1870. Zoom image Zoom image Eaton Hall in foregroundZoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom imageSlide carouosel leftSlide carousel right12345678 Tourism, Recreation, and Culture Salem has several musical groups, including the Salem Chamber Orchestra, the Salem Youth Symphony Association, and the Salem Philharmonia. The Oregon Symphony Association in Salem brings the Oregon Symphony to the city for several concerts a year. Choral groups include Festival Chorale Salem, Willamette Master Chorus, and the Salem Community Chorus, the oldest mixed community chorus in Oregon. The Oregon State Fair has been at the same location in northeast Salem since 1862. The fairgrounds was annexed to the City of Salem in 1921 and is now managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The Salem Public Market, the oldest farmers’ market in Oregon, has operated in the city since 1943, and the annual Art Fair and Festival has been at Bush’s Pasture Park and Conservatory since 1949. The Willamette Queen, the only operating sternwheeler on the Willamette River, is docked at Riverfront Park along the Willamette River. Also in the park are the Riverfront Carousel and the A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village, which honors Alfred Carlton Gilbert, the inventor of the Erector Set. Several movies have used Salem as a location, including Promise (1986), Bandits (2000), and The Hunted (2001). The Academy Award-winning One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), based on the novel by Ken Kesey, was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital. The city has several historic theater buildings, including the Elsinore (1926), Salem’s Historic Grand (1900), and the Pentacle (1954), which present plays, musical performances, and special events. Since 1996, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the San Francisco Giants, has played at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer. At Mad House Salem, a recreational center on Madison Street, approximately 150 skaters compete as part of the Cherry City Derby Girls, a roller-skating league that has been a member of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association since 2012.
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Salem
20 recommandé par les habitants
Salem, the capital of Oregon, is located at a crossroads of trade and travel on former prairie lands along the Willamette River. The city was designated the seat of Marion County in 1849 and the territorial capital in 1851-1852. Incorporated in 1857, Salem served as the de facto state capital beginning in 1859 and, by popular vote, became the official capital in 1864. It is on the site of one of the earliest American settlements in the Oregon Country, a Methodist mission established by Jason Lee in 1841 near the Kalapuyan village of Tchimikiti. Lee established a town near the mission, which he named Chemeketa. In 1846, William Willson renamed it Salem, from the Arabic word salam, which means peace. To the south of the city are the Salem Hills, originally called the Red Hills, a midvalley geologic formation of ancient Jory soils. To the north is Lake Labish, a marshland drained in the early twentieth century to create agricultural land, and to the east farms and small towns meet the foothills of the Cascade Range. Salem’s western boundary ended at the Willamette River until 1949, when West Salem was incorporated into the city. The city is in two counties, Marion to the east of the Willamette River and Polk to the west. Salem is drained by Mill Creek (Chemeketa Creek) and Pringle Creek (Harbor Creek), tributaries of the Willamette River. During the nineteenth century, the two creeks were joined by mill races to operate sawmills, grist mills, and woolen mills. Salem gets its water from the North Fork of the Santiam River, which was joined to Mill Creek by the Salem Ditch in 1857 to create better mill-race flows and provide clean drinking water. Salem vies with Eugene as the second most populous city in Oregon (after Portland). The city’s population was 1,137 in 1870, and it has doubled or tripled every decade since, with the most dramatic change occurring between 1870 and 1880, when the population grew by 122 percent. In 2020, the city had 175,535 residents, 23 percent of them Latinx. Early Resettlement In 1841, Lee moved his mission from French Prairie to Chemeketa, where he built a sawmill and a grist mill. His house, the first permanent non-Native residence in the region, was built in 1842. The Great Reinforcement of Methodist missionary families, recruited by Jason Lee, arrived on the Lausanne in 1840. Over the next three years, more than a thousand people traveled the Oregon Trail to the Willamette Valley, and many claimed land near the mission. By 1844, Lee’s mission school was closed and the property transferred to William Willson, who platted the town. Salem had grown enough by 1851 to be named the territorial capital. The city’s influence on territorial politics increased when Asahel Bush and Samuel R. Thurston moved their newspaper, the Oregon Statesman, there in 1853. Bush used the publication to argue policy with Thomas Dryer of the Whig/Republican Oregonian in Portland, a public battle of wits that became known as Oregon-Style Journalism. The newspaper merged with the Capital Journal in 1980 to become the Statesman Journal. The Salem area was opened to further resettlement when the U.S. government removed the Kalapuyans to the Grand Ronde Reservation in 1856. The only documented Native-white conflict in the area had occurred in the Salem Hills at Battle Creek in 1846, when the Oregon Rangers, a volunteer militia, attacked a group of Klamaths and Wascoes because they had stolen a horse. The militia eventually apologized for their overreaction. Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom imageSlide carouosel leftSlide carousel right123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 Economy The largest employer in Salem is the Oregon state government, and the State Capitol Building and Mall are the most prominent features of the city. Town founders William and Chloe Willson donated land for the territorial capitol building, and construction began in 1854. The project stumbled when the seat of government moved to Corvallis in 1855 for one session, but construction continued and the legislature moved in by December 1855, a little more than a week before the structure burned down. In 1935, fire destroyed a second capitol, built in 1876-1893. The current capitol was built in 1938. The Oregon State Hospital and Oregon State Penitentiary are in Salem, along with the Oregon Department of Corrections and the Santiam Correctional Institution. Agriculture and ranching were Salem’s earliest industries. In 1847, nurseryman Henderson Seth Lewelling arrived in the Willamette Valley with hundreds of seedlings, many of them Royal Anne cherry trees. Orchardists were so successful with the crop that Salem was named the Cherry City of the World in 1907, when the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen judged that it had “the greatest and finest display of cherries known in history.” Salem held an annual Cherry City Festival from 1903 to 1967, and berries remain an important crop in the area. Agriculture still dominates the Salem economy, and NORPAC, the state’s largest vegetable-and-fruit-canning cooperative, has been in business in the city since 1924. John Minto, Joseph Watt, and Daniel Waldo opened the Willamette Woolen Mills in Salem in 1857, and the Oregon Wool Growers Association was formed in 1865, “the first permanent organization of wool men in Oregon.” The Thomas Kay Woolen Mills opened in 1889 and was soon the second largest woolen mill on the West Coast. After the mill closed in 1962, it was repurposed as the Mission Mill Museum. By 1866, the Capital Lumbering Company had built a major sawmill in Salem, and Oregon Pulp and Paper built a plant on the Willamette River in 1919. When Boise Cascade purchased both facilities in 1962, production operations included settling ponds for effluents across the Willamette Slough on Minto-Brown Island. Environmental concerns, including air pollution and water quality, caused a strain on profits, and the company ended pulp production in 1982 and paper production in 2007. The City of Salem reclaimed the land and opened it to condominiums and a riverfront park. On Minto-Brown Island, the former settling ponds are now an ecological preserve managed by the Audubon Society. Major businesses in Salem include Amazon, Garmen, Kettle Foods, Don Pancho, NORPAC, Kerr Concentrates, Henningsen Cold Storage, Freres Lumber, May Trucking, and the Meier and Frank Department Store (sold to the May Department Stores in 1966). Salem has three sister cities: Tamil Nodu, India; Simferopol, Ukraine; and Växjö, Sweden. Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Thomas Kay stands third from rightZoom image Zoom image Mary Fraser was the proprietorZoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Oregon Territorial and State Legislatures met here, 1857-1876. Destroyed in 1951.Zoom image 1876 Capitol Building.Zoom image Zoom image Post office and old capitol in the distanceZoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image North front of the State Capitol, Salem, soon after the building was occupied, 1938-1939.Zoom imageSlide carouosel leftSlide carousel right12345678910111213141516171819202122 Education Salem is a center of research and education for the Willamette Valley. The Oregon State Archives and Oregon State Library are near the capitol, as is Willamette University, the oldest four-year university west of the Mississippi. Chemeketa Community College opened in 1970, and Corban University moved to Salem in 1969. Forty thousand students attend schools in the Salem-Keizer School District (Keizer is a city of about 36,000 people north of Salem). Chemawa Indian School, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, moved from Forest Grove to Salem in 1885; and Blanchet Academy, a Catholic high school, opened in 1995. The Oregon School for the Deaf has operated in the city since 1870. Zoom image Zoom image Eaton Hall in foregroundZoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom image Zoom imageSlide carouosel leftSlide carousel right12345678 Tourism, Recreation, and Culture Salem has several musical groups, including the Salem Chamber Orchestra, the Salem Youth Symphony Association, and the Salem Philharmonia. The Oregon Symphony Association in Salem brings the Oregon Symphony to the city for several concerts a year. Choral groups include Festival Chorale Salem, Willamette Master Chorus, and the Salem Community Chorus, the oldest mixed community chorus in Oregon. The Oregon State Fair has been at the same location in northeast Salem since 1862. The fairgrounds was annexed to the City of Salem in 1921 and is now managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The Salem Public Market, the oldest farmers’ market in Oregon, has operated in the city since 1943, and the annual Art Fair and Festival has been at Bush’s Pasture Park and Conservatory since 1949. The Willamette Queen, the only operating sternwheeler on the Willamette River, is docked at Riverfront Park along the Willamette River. Also in the park are the Riverfront Carousel and the A.C. Gilbert’s Discovery Village, which honors Alfred Carlton Gilbert, the inventor of the Erector Set. Several movies have used Salem as a location, including Promise (1986), Bandits (2000), and The Hunted (2001). The Academy Award-winning One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), based on the novel by Ken Kesey, was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital. The city has several historic theater buildings, including the Elsinore (1926), Salem’s Historic Grand (1900), and the Pentacle (1954), which present plays, musical performances, and special events. Since 1996, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the San Francisco Giants, has played at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer. At Mad House Salem, a recreational center on Madison Street, approximately 150 skaters compete as part of the Cherry City Derby Girls, a roller-skating league that has been a member of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association since 2012.

Famous Vineyards

Willamette Valley Vineyards Turner, Oregon Willamette Valley AVA The Estate Vineyard, located south of Salem, is planted on an old west-to-southwest facing volcanic flow. The pioneering Jory family who first farmed the hill-site found the ancient volcanic, iron-rich soil to be ideal for dark, thin-skinned plums, which they dried into prunes. Wine grapes were first planted in 1983 by Founder Jim Bernau. The vineyard site rises from 500-750 feet in elevation with seven to twelve degree slopes tilted toward the sun. As a result, the vines get excellent air drainage and are above the frost line. At this elevation and slope, the temperature is approximately 10 degrees cooler than the valley floor during the day. The soil type is typically a clay loam, which is permeable to roots, retentive of moisture and runs five to seven feet deep. Because this soil is so old, estimated to be 10 to 14 million years old, rain water has percolated through this now acidic soil, breaking down the basalt, allowing the roots to tap down. The Nekia and Jory soils are well drained to a depth of two and a half to six feet. The Estate Vineyard has a total of 67 acres of vines planted, with the first Dijon clones grafted in 1993. It is primarily planted with Pinot Noir Dijon clones 667, 777, Pommard and Wadenswil. Additionally, a portion is planted in Pinot Gris and Dijon Clone Chardonnay 76 and 96. Wines made from this vineyard exude a sense of place and display complexity, elegance and balance.
69 recommandé par les habitants
Willamette Valley Vineyards
8800 Enchanted Way SE
69 recommandé par les habitants
Willamette Valley Vineyards Turner, Oregon Willamette Valley AVA The Estate Vineyard, located south of Salem, is planted on an old west-to-southwest facing volcanic flow. The pioneering Jory family who first farmed the hill-site found the ancient volcanic, iron-rich soil to be ideal for dark, thin-skinned plums, which they dried into prunes. Wine grapes were first planted in 1983 by Founder Jim Bernau. The vineyard site rises from 500-750 feet in elevation with seven to twelve degree slopes tilted toward the sun. As a result, the vines get excellent air drainage and are above the frost line. At this elevation and slope, the temperature is approximately 10 degrees cooler than the valley floor during the day. The soil type is typically a clay loam, which is permeable to roots, retentive of moisture and runs five to seven feet deep. Because this soil is so old, estimated to be 10 to 14 million years old, rain water has percolated through this now acidic soil, breaking down the basalt, allowing the roots to tap down. The Nekia and Jory soils are well drained to a depth of two and a half to six feet. The Estate Vineyard has a total of 67 acres of vines planted, with the first Dijon clones grafted in 1993. It is primarily planted with Pinot Noir Dijon clones 667, 777, Pommard and Wadenswil. Additionally, a portion is planted in Pinot Gris and Dijon Clone Chardonnay 76 and 96. Wines made from this vineyard exude a sense of place and display complexity, elegance and balance.
https://cubanisimovineyards.com/
7 recommandé par les habitants
Cubanisimo Vineyards
1754 Best Rd NW
7 recommandé par les habitants
https://cubanisimovineyards.com/
7 recommandé par les habitants
Bethel Heights Vineyard
6060 Bethel Heights Rd NW
7 recommandé par les habitants

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