Founding & Town Origins
Where Briarmont began: the town's founding, the county's formation, and the documents and figures at the root of the record.
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Elias Hartwell
Elias HartwellElias Hartwell was one of Briarmont’s earliest and most consequential figures: a timber baron, industrial founder, and man of immense ambition whose will helped shape the town long before Oakridge ever stood…
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Orrin Lathrop
Orrin LathropOrrin Lathrop came west from New Hampshire and opened a store on the mill road in 1862, the first year the new mill cut lumber.
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Adelaide Hartwell
Adelaide HartwellAdelaide Hartwell was the daughter of Elias Hartwell and Lucy Pruett, a dressmaker in Briarmont, whom he never married. She grew up with her mother's surname.
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Elias Hartwell's Will & TestamentElias Hartwell's Will & Testament
Elias Hartwell signed this will at Briarmont in February 1911, in the last months of his life.
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Timeline of Briarmont
Timeline of BriarmontPeople had lived along this coast long before any settler came to it.