About

The Gresham Historical Society (GHS) is a free museum of community heritage and culture located in the heart of Historic Downtown Gresham. Now the fourth-largest city in Oregon, Gresham was once a small, rural town with an economy based on lumber, berry growing and processing, dairy farms, and filbert orchards. GHS’s archives include school and community newspapers, business records, oral history recordings, yearbooks, local and regional maps, historic photos, scrapbooks, ephemera, three-dimensional objects, and secondary resources on local history, many of which document Gresham’s transition from a small farming town to a large city often considered a satellite of Portland. Now, with support from Northwest Digital Heritage and the Schwemm Family Foundation, many of these resources are available online.

GHS is located in the 1913 former Gresham Library, an English Tudor Revival building on the National Register of Historic Places. Rotating exhibits are open to the public five days per week. Other public programs include Voices of Gresham, a podcast based in stories from GHS’s oral history collection; monthly lectures on local history topics; pioneer cemetery tours; and virtual exhibits available through our website, www.greshamhistorical.org.

Contact
(503) 661-0347
info@greshamhistorical.org
www.greshamhistorical.org/contact
410 N Main Ave
PO Box 65
Gresham, OR 97030