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The Early Years TUALATIN GETS ORGANIZED--BOOMTOWN-1890s With newcomers arriving from various parts of the country, with a trip into Portland now just a comfortable hour's ride on the train, with all the state and national news in The Oregonian available daily, Tualatin was no longer just an isolated rural town. It was now ready and eager to expand its social life.It was in these years that the United Artisans, a fraternal insurance organization, gathered Tualatin members, and the Woodsmen of the World and the Ancient Order of United Workmen set up local branches. These were social and/or fraternal organizations and burial societies that grew out of labor or craft guilds. Some of the new fraternities were conducted with formal drill work, ceremonies and secret signs and passwords, to the delight of the socially hungry residents.  

START OF WINONA GRANGE By far the largest and longest-lasting of these was the Grange, organized in Tualatin in 1895. It was primarily an ...