Oregon Institute

[1] First Lee and his men built Mission Bottom north of present Salem, Oregon, but that was flooded in 1841.

[3] On February 1, 1842, several missionaries, including Jason Lee, met at his house to discuss forming a school for the White settlers' children.

[4] For $4,000, the Oregon Institute bought the three-story building originally under construction for the Indian Manual Labor School, together with its land, in June 1844.

[5] On February 1, 1843, the first "Wolf Meeting" was held at the Oregon Institute with Supreme Judge Ira L. Babcock, who at the time also governed the country, presiding, to discuss the issue of predatory animals in the Willamette Valley.

[7] An American naval agent visited the institute during the same year found the school in a "languishing condition", its dormitories still incomplete.

The original building of the Oregon Institute. Completed in 1844, the building was destroyed by fire in 1872.