Artifact Spotlight: Glass Stopper

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This glass stopper is from Corvallis, Oregon!

It was unearthed in 2022, during a pause in construction of a project by Oregon Department of Transportation to replace the Van Buren Bridge. After deeming the location historically significant, Museum archaeologists excavated the historic Corvallis City Dump site, which was on the east side of the river and used between 1910 and 1913.

The archaeologists completed excavation in 2022.

Read more about the Corvallis Van Buren Bridge Project on the MNCH Website.

Read more about the Van Buren Bridge restructuring on ODOT’s Website.

Modern-day Corvallis stands on the traditional homelands of the Mary’s River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.