El Paso Corn Festival Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/el-paso-corn-festival Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:12:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Aumsville Corn Festival – Top USA Festivals http://toursmaps.com/aumsville-corn-festival-top-usa-festivals.html http://toursmaps.com/aumsville-corn-festival-top-usa-festivals.html#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:08:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=271383 Aumsville Porter Boone Park, 1105 Main Street Mid-August www.aumsville.us/corn-festival-information.html The immediate area around Salem attracted some of the Northwest’s earliest wagon-train settlers in the mid-1800s. In 1863, having arrived in the Willamette Valley more than a decade earlier, Henry L. Turner purchased land from John McHaley at the future site of the small town of Aumsville, east of Salem. At the time, the settlement was called Hoggum because so many people raised pigs in the area. Turner built a flour mill on the site. Soon thereafter, however, his son-in-law, Amos Davis, died at the age of 31 (a large headstone

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