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HOMESTEAD HISTORIES
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The Slack House
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Learn more about the newly renovated Slack House!
Built in 1864, this is not only the oldest homestead on The Teller, but also intertwines the Slack and Chaffin family history. The story of the Slack House launches long before its beginnings with John "Jack" Slack, born in 1835 in Baltimore.
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The Chaffin House
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Intrepid travelers, Elijah and Margaret Chaffin, headed west in 1864 from their native Tennessee through Kansas. They traversed the Wild West by ox-drawn wagons, bound for Oregon with their three children, his two brothers and their wives, and two other families. By summer, they made it to Bannack, Montana, where they met up with Mary Polly (Polly) Chaffin, Elijah's younger sister, who had moved west a year earlier.
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The Burroughs House
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Thomas and Clara Burroughs first arrived in what was then called Chaffinville (present-day Corvallis) sometime around 1881. They established a nursery on part of Elijah Chaffin's land, now part of The Teller, where they grew poplar, black cottonwood, and fruit trees. In 1888 they purchased approximately six acres for $302.50, where they would build the Burroughs home later that year.
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The Quast House-
The Teller's Office
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The story of the Quast House begins with John Summers, who was born in 1849 in Galloway Green County, Missouri. When he was only 19, he worked as a blacksmith traveling by horseback through Montana, until he finally settled in Corvallis in 1877, at age 28. Juda Chaffin, daughter of Elijah and Margaret Chaffin (homesteaders of the Chaffin House on The Teller) married John in 1878. Moving to various locations around the valley, the flourishing couple became substantial landowners and ranchers, eventually owning more than 1,000 acres and 1,500 head of cattle. More about The Quast House ....
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