Sweet Home in Linn County: New Life, New Land

First platted in the 1850s, and as legend tells it, named from an exclamation of settler William Clark waking to discover what a Home, Sweet Home, this future lumber boom-town began as a stage stop on the road across the Cascade Mountains. With the arrival of the first freight train on April 1, 1932, Sweet Home became one of Linn County's most important industrialized towns. Crawfordsville, Holley, Fern Ridge, Liberty, Pleasant Valley, Foster, and Cascadia were all settled about the same ti...