Apr 7, 2019 | Opal Whiteley, Pioneer/ Historical, Work party/ moving
What Do We Love Most About Cottage Grove? History abounds here! Even Cottage Grove’s name represents a bit of history, describing where the first post office sat (a cottage in a grove) around the middle of the nineteenth century when pioneers first came to settle the...
Dec 5, 2015 | Opal Whiteley, Pioneer/ Historical
Did you know Singing Creek is named after this woman? Opal Whiteley was a pioneer girl who lived in Cottage Grove in the early 20th Century. The book of her childhood diary is called “The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow”…and she had a dream to...
Feb 9, 2015 | Opal Whiteley
I am related to Opal Whiteley! I was reading a book about Opal Whiteley that I had been given by Sue Hunton, and I discovered that Opal and I are related! We share a distant relative, Daniel Boone. I immediately dug through my old paperwork, found my genealogy packet,...
