Tualatin Academy was a secondary school in the U.S. state of Oregon that eventually became Pacific University . Tualatin Academy also refers to the National Register of Historic Places -listed college building constructed in 1850 to house the academy, also known as Old College Hall . The building now serves as the Pacific University Museum , and is one of the oldest collegiate buildings in the western United States .
19-559: Congregational minister Harvey L. Clark started a missionary school in 1841 just north of East Tualatin Plains , now Hillsboro . The school was soon moved to West Tualatin Plains (now Forest Grove) where in 1847 Clark was joined by Tabitha Moffatt Brown , the Mother of Oregon. The two then operated a school for settler's children and Brown opened a school for orphans, opening in 1848. The Reverend Henry H. Spalding ’s wife Eliza Hart Spalding
38-777: A Congregational Minister and as missionaries to the Native Americans. Harvey Clarke and his Party traveled overland with the Trapper Caravan from the States, leaving Westport on the Missouri River to travel across the plains, attend the 1840 Trapper Rendezvous in Green River, and on to Fort Hall where Joe Meek and his family were waiting. They arrived August 14, 1840, at the Whitman Station . He
57-592: A college in Oregon, which was chartered by the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1849 as Tualatin Academy . Clarke donated 20 acres (81,000 m ) to the school that year, and deeded another 200 acres (0.81 km ). Tualatin Academy would grow with the addition of a college, Pacific University in 1854, while the academy would be closed in 1915. Marsh Hall at the school is situated where
76-591: A small group of Presbyterian missionaries traveled with the annual fur trapper's caravan into Oregon Country . Among the group, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding became the first white women to travel across the continent. Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman established the Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu, near the Walla Walla River. The mission was in Cayuse territory. The Cayuse welcomed
95-551: Is a United States National Historic Site located just west of Walla Walla, Washington , at the site of the former Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu . On November 29, 1847, Dr. Marcus Whitman , his wife Narcissa Whitman , and 11 others were slain by Native Americans of the Cayuse . The site commemorates the Whitmans, their role in establishing the Oregon Trail , and the challenges encountered when two cultures meet. In 1836,
114-619: Is an octagonal shaped louvered belfry, similar to one that was on the Oregon Institute building. The rectangular shaped hall is divided by a centralized cross hall. Colonial Revival in style, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Tualatin Academy in 1974. The downstairs of the building houses the Price Memorial Chapel and meeting space. It is the oldest college building in
133-710: The Champoeg Meetings , May 2, 1843, and helped to found Tualatin Academy that later became Pacific University . Clarke also worked for the Methodist Mission and was a chaplain for the Provisional Legislature of Oregon in 1845. Harvey L. Clarke was born in Chester, Vermont , on October 2, 1807. In Vermont he married Emeline Cadwell , and they would have five children. In 1840, Clarke, with his wife, moved to Oregon Country as
152-567: The Provisional Legislature of Oregon . Clarke made his land claim in 1846 for about 480 acres (1.9 km ). In 1842, Clarke and his wife started a school for Native Americans at Glencoe in what is now Hillsboro to the east of Forest Grove. A few years later Tabitha Moffatt Brown arrived in Forest Grove and joined the Clarkes in operating a home for orphans. In 1848, George H. Atkinson arrived and began working with Clarke to create
171-645: The North Tualatin Plains, built a small log home in Glencoe. They were teaching the Métis children from Red River, and a few Atfalati children in their cabin. Harvey and Emeline Clarke were the first teachers in what would become the district of Tuality and later Washington County, Oregon . They moved to West Tuality on the Tualatin Plains , and taught there. This location would later become
190-585: The Whitmans to their land in 1836 after learning of them the previous year from Samuel Parker . The Mission became an important stop along the Oregon Trail from 1843–1847, and passing immigrants added to the tension. With the influx of white settlers the Cayuse became suspicious of the Whitmans again, fearing that the white man was coming to take the land. A measles outbreak in November 1847 killed half
209-454: The local Cayuse. The measles also broke out in the Mission but more white settlers survived. Some of the Cayuse blamed the devastation of their tribe on Dr. Whitman and Mrs. Whitman. They were killed along with eleven others; forty-seven other mission residents were taken hostage. The deaths of the Whitmans shocked the country, prompting Congress to make Oregon a US territory, and precipitated
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#1732775957155228-657: The school's centennial celebration. Harvey L. Clark Harvey L. Clarke (October 2, 1807 – March 25, 1858) was an educator, missionary, and settler first on the North Tualatin Plains which would become Glencoe, Oregon , and then on the West Tualatin Plains that would become Forest Grove, Oregon . A native of Vermont where he and his family were stonemasons, he moved to the Oregon Country in 1840 where he participated at
247-645: The school. A second identical building was added 18 years after Old College Hall and named Academy Hall. Academy Hall burned in 1910. Old College hall later was the Science Hall for the university and known as the Chem Shack to students from 1900 to 1950. In 1949, the science department moved out and the building was renamed as Old College Hall. That year two rooms upstairs became the Pacific University Museum. Sitting atop its hipped roof
266-525: The state and was still in use as a museum and chapel in 2017. The second floor of Old College Hall contains the Pacific University Museum with exhibits about the history of the university, including items from school founder Tabitha Moffatt Brown , first school president Sidney Harper Marsh, alumni and friends. Visits are by appointment with the Office of the President. The museum opened in 1949 as part of
285-571: The three original land claims of the town’s founders met, including Clarke’s. In 1849, he taught for a short time at the Clackamas County Female Seminary . Clarke would also sell 150 acres (0.61 km ) of his land claim and donate the proceeds to the school he helped to found. The Reverend Harvey L. Clarke died on March 25, 1858, at the age of 50 in Forest Grove. Whitman Mission National Historic Site#history Whitman Mission National Historic Site
304-830: The town of Forest Grove , and Clarke would take a land claim at the location. In 1843, he was one of several participants from the Tualatin Valley that participated in the Champoeg Meetings. At the May 2, 1843, meeting, Clarke voted for the creation of the Provisional Government of Oregon , which passed by a 52 to 50 margin. In 1844, Clarke established a Congregational Church [a simple log church] in Forest Grove and another in Oregon City . The following year he served as one of several chaplains to
323-652: Was an independent missionary, unaffiliated with any missionary organization such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . The Clarke Party included Harvey Clarke and his wife Emeline, Alvin T. and Abigail Smith , Philo and Adelaide Littlejohn. In Oregon, Clarke taught at the Methodist Mission ’s first location at Mission Bottom on the French Prairie in the Willamette Valley . By 1842, Harvey and Emeline Clarke had moved to
342-527: Was hired to teach at the school the first year. In 1848, Presbyterians and Congregationalists determined to start a school with Clark and Brown's school as the location. The Oregon Territorial Legislature chartered the Tualatin Academy on September 29, 1849. Founding trustees of the school included Clark, P. H. Hatch, George H. Atkinson , James M. Moore, and Osborne Russell among others. In 1854, when college classes were added, Pacific University
361-454: Was split from the academy. Tualatin Academy continued alongside the university until it was closed in 1914, at a time when many private high schools disappeared with the growth of public schools. The Tualatin Academy building, now known as Old College Hall, is a two-story wood-frame structure. Built by the community in July 1850 in barn raising fashion, it replaced a log cabin previously used by
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