Another substantial impact from what became the I-5 alignment was at the Hayesville Interchange, where Portland Road, the old highway, intersected with the Salem Bypass and Salem-Portland Expressway, which together were absorbed into I-5 few years later.
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| Hayesville School, looking NE along Portland Rd. (Salem Library Historic Photos, 1917) |
Though its building and land were not directly required for the Interchange, a newly constructed onramp from Portland Road to the Expressway encroached on the front of the schoolyard and required children to cross a road where a new expectation for highway speed and flow was fundamentally incompatible with walking safety.
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| Looking SE at new Interchange, February 8th, 1961 |
In this 1961 photo, you can see a crosswalk striped across Portland Road and the start to the slip lanes and onramp. (I'm pretty sure that's right at the modern intersection of Astoria/Ward and Portland Road. In aerial views you can still see the outline of older ramps in compressed, less fertile soil and growth.)
Though the article frames the matter first as a problem of overcrowding, the road traffic loomed:Hayesville parents are upset...State Highway Department plans call for widening of Highway 99E, which runs a few feet in front of the school. While widening would not endanger the building itself, it would bring truck noises one lane closer to the school.
An article from a year later flips the focus and frames the highways as the primary problem. Its aerial photo (detail at very top of post) shows the school and ramp system even more clearly.
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| January 21st, 1962 |
Unlike the area near Geer Park, Hayesville and its changes were chronicled a little by a nearby family of writers and historians. Hayesville was a small but old community outside of Salem. In 1958 Mrs. George Strozut Jr. contributed a piece on the 100th anniversary of the school. The family had also contributed a photo to the 1962 piece just above. The family had a home, in fact, directly across Portland Road from the school, right where the trailer and RV business is today. There's no substitute for proximity and hyperlocal knowledge in journalism!
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| April 23rd, 1958 |
Mr. George Strozut Jr. had a few years earlier written a piece detailing the loss of housing.
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| March 1st, 1954 |
The piece in whole:
HAYESVILLE—Major changes are taking place in this long placid Community, due largely to the newly encroaching by-pass and expressway interchange.
The west side of Portland Road from the Hayesville school south to Oscar Olson's greenhouse is to be vacated by March 1.
These houses were built on the donation land claim of Adam Stephens, founder of Hayesville. His daughter, Mrs. Berrilla Halbert, wrote that in 1880 there were only 10 houses in the community.
Working south from the school, the first house is the Jacob Denny place, which has just been vacated by Mrs. Jacob Denny, Miss Ida Penny, and Miss Pauline Denny, who have moved into their newly constructed home located across the highway to the east of the old home. This is a modern three bedroom house with a full basement and fireplace.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Denny purchased 60 acres, 15 of which were partially cleared, in March, 1884, and the family has resided here continuously since. A house had been erected on the land in 1878 by Jacob Thonen who sold to the Dennys. This house was dismantled and a new house was built on the same site in 1905.
The Dennys raised their family of five girls here. Jacob Denny, born in Switzerland, passed away in December 1939 at the age of 89. Mrs. Denny today, at the age of 92, has the honor of being Hayesville's oldest resident both in age and residence here. She enjoys fair health and likes to watch the traffic go by thru their new large picture windows.
The second and third houses to the south belonging to the Ing Torresdal and Joe Moorman families are not as yet vacated.
The fourth house as owned by the Horace Smiths, residents of Hayesville since 1927, who have purchased new home at 2195 Englewood Avenue and are partially moved.
The next three houses owned by the Anton Benes (Hayesville Auto Court), the Al Bensons, and Smith Real Estate, respectively, were sold at public auction on January 28. The eight cabins in the auto court have already been moved to the Four Corners district. The houses are to be moved to Sunnyview Avenue in East Salem.
For years these three homes were graced by seven stately firs which had been planted in 1887 by John Peterson. Progress has cut down two of them this week with others to follow soon as the homes are on blocks waiting to be moved.
The center house, recently owned by the Bensons, was formerly the William Dunsmoor home and was the showplace of Hayesville, with its sunken dining room and a sunken garden surrounded by many shrubs and ornamental trees.
The eighth house to be vacated soon is the Grover Farmer home which was built by Adam Stephens in the 1880's. The Farmers purchased their two acre tract in 1940 and are now moving to a half-acre tract and house at 1225 Chemawa Road.
George had a real interest in history, teaching it in area high schools and also as active member of the Marion County Historical Society. A piece on Hayesville, "Hayesville Should Have Been Names Stephensville," is in Marion County History, vol.4, 1958.
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| October 7th, 1958 |
The neighborhood north of Geer Park enjoyed no such chronicler, and we know less about it.
As for the school, the official web page is silent on the highway impacts and silent on the older school buildings.
Hayesville Elementary is named for the Hayesville area in Salem, where the school is located. That area was named after the Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States. Hayesville opened in 1963. We are a kindergarten through fifth grade school, with an average enrollment of around 460 students.
Here are the relevant auction ads so far.
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| January 23rd, 1954 |
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| March 6th, 1954 |
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| May 22nd, 1954 |
Those homes with families referenced in the Strozut piece from 1954 are identified with parentheses.
4240 Portland Road
4345 Portland Road (Farmer? Not sure also if this is the house of 1876, also.)
4405 Portland Road (Smith Real Estate?)
4435 Portland Road (Benson/Dunsmoor)
Hayesville Motel cabins (aka "auto court")
4535 Portland Road (Smith)
4555 Portland Road (Moorman)
4655 Portland Road (Torresdal)
4683 Portland Road (Denny)
There are also a few more listed in the auction ads farther north on Chemawa Road, but these are not part of the school or really part of Salem, and we may or may not return to them.
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