Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Tigard Author

TIGARD, Ore. - Nov. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- Tigard, Oregon began as an elegant farming community on the Tualatin Plains in the Northern Willamette Valley and became an upscale metropolitan residential community. The Native American Atfalati Kalapuyas interacted with early trappers, traders, missionaries and pioneer settlers. Pioneers arrived in the 1850s to take up donation land claims.

Tigard was originally called East Butte and numerous nationalities and religions populated the settlement. A grange was formed to aid farmers' causes and churches were established to build a sense of neighborliness. East Butte became Tigardville when Charles Fremont Tigard opened a post office in his general merchandise store in 1886 and named the postal station after his parents.

Tigardville became Tigard when the Oregon Electric Railway came through in 1908 and residents distinguished Tigard from Wilsonville. The Oregon Electric shipped Tigard's farm produce north to Portland and south to Salem. Tigard was incorporated as a city on September 11, 1961 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011.

Join the author for a signing:

Where:  Costco

7850 SW Dartmouth, Tigard OR 97223

When:  Saturday, November 16^th, 2013; 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online. (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738596952/Tigard)

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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Author Dr. Barbara Bennett Peterson is a former professor of history at Oregon State University. She’s also the historian/writer for the Tigard Historical Association which preserves the John Tigard House Museum and is a docent at the Tigard Public Library's Local History Room.

Tigard

by Barbara Bennett Peterson, PhD

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: April 1, 2013