Thursday morning I awoke to find a light coating of snow
on the roofs and yards. We typically
don't get much snow here: the average annual snowfall is 3 inches. But one of the years covered by the Circa
1920 exhibition was quite different. On
December 19, 1919, a record 11 inches fell. Additional snow fell on the
following days, for a total of 20 inches for the month! December in 1919 was also unusually cold, so
the snow didn't melt but stayed on the ground.
Here are some photos to show what that much snow looked
like. The first shows downtown Corvallis looking north along 2nd
Street from Jefferson. Note the man
shoveling snow off the roof of the Benton County Bank in the center of the
photo.
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| 1919 snowfall in downtown Corvallis, Oregon |
The second photograph shows a Corvallis home in the snow. Look
at those icicles!
The snow was also deep in Philomath as this photo of the
museum's building (then Philomath College) shows.
By Martha Fraundorf, Volunteer for Benton County Historical Society, Philomath, Oregon
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| 1919 snowfall at Philomath, Oregon |
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