Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site
History
Establishment
The land for the park was the first land acquired by what was then the State Highway Commission for use as a park when Sarah Helmick donated 5.16 acres (2.09 ha) and James and Amanda Helmick donated 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) on February 15, 1922.
The park's namesake, Sarah Helmick (1823-1924), was an Oregon pioneer who settled a donation land claim which included the park land with her husband during the second half of the 1840s. The resident of Albany, Oregon gifted the original parcel of land for use as an "automobile campground."
Expansion
In 1948, 23.65 acres (95,700 m) were purchased and added to the park, followed by a gift of 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) later that same year. Currently a day-use only park, the park used to have overnight camping facilities.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ "Sarah Helmick State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- ^ "Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site - Oregon State Parks". stateparks.oregon.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
- ^ "Weekly listing". National Park Service.
- ^ Chester H. Armstrong, Oregon State Parks: History, 1917-1963. Salem, OR: Oregon State Highway Department, 1965; pg. 185.
- ^ "Mrs. S. Helmick Dies in Albany," Corvallis Gazette-Times, vol. 16, no. 202 (Dec. 24, 1924), pg. 1.
External links
- "Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site". Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- Media related to Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site at Wikimedia Commons
- Works related to Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 26/Sarah Helmick and Helmick Park at Wikisource