A portion of the Gibbs Starling map of 1851 showing the land of the Atfalati People.
As early as 1842, white Oregon pioneers began trickling into the valley, displacing the natives. No doubt they also laid to rest their deceased loved ones in this fertile valley of the Tualatin River. They hunted, fished, traded, and gathered the abundant blue-flowered tubers known as Camassia. Evidence of winter village complexes, characteristic of these Tualatin Peoples, date back roughly 6,000 years. The Tualatin Plains has seen thousands of years of rich history.įor millennia, the Atfalati peoples lived in the Scoggins Valley area on what became known to early white settlers as the Twality Plains. They tore down many houses to make the dam.” The class of 1970 was the last to see the inside of the old schoolhouse before it was razed.īefore my ancestors settled the area though, we need to reach further back in time. We would go to school one day and the next day your friend’s house was a pile of burning rubble. Image via Dan Scott.Īs one area old-timer recalls, “ They had to tear it down because of the dam. Forest Dale School, the remains of which now lay submerged beneath Henry Hagg Lake, Scoggins Valley, Oregon. Where the lake is now was just a creek, the Stimpsons Lumber Camp, many homes, a log church, grist mill, and the rural schoolhouse that mom attended: Forest Dale School. In the 1950s, Hagg Lake wasn’t even a thought. She grew up out there, rambling around the valley in the filbert orchards, playing with cap guns, and climbing trees. Of course, mom had a somewhat more reasonable explanation. Their words nagged at me for weeks until one weekend I finally asked my mom about what I was sure were some kind of Hagg Lake zombies. FOR REALS.” Preteen-me just laughed it off, but secretly my spine was developing chills. “ Don’t go swimming in Hagg Lake…there are BODIES.” “ Did you know there’s a whole GRAVEYARD under there?” “ Yo…I was swimming at Hagg one time and a SKELETON HAND reached up and grabbed my leg. Image via / Pacific University Collectionsīy the time I was an awkward, nerdy preteen attending Tom McCall Middle School I’d heard the rumors.
An early map showing proposals for Scoggins Valley and Hagg Lake, then known as “Scoggins Reservoir”. Join for Free! Henry Hagg Lake was created by flooding the area known as Scoggins Valley.
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