The Pine Valley Community Museum is conveniently located next to Heritage Square in the heart of downtown Halfway in the same building as Halfway City Hall.
The museum includes numerous exhibits showcasing the community’s Gold Rush, and agricultural history. Exhibits include several displays from historic businesses, a country kitchen, native American artifacts, and antique farming equipment.
There is also an outdoors historic park exhibit featuring the areas first public school, Halfway’s original jail, and a pioneer smokehouse all dating to the late 19th century.
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Purchase our first feature length documentary on the ghost town / mining community of Cornucopia, Oregon.
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Section coming summer 2024
The PVCM offers the Valley’s original log school house and the original Halfway jailhouse (1909), as part of the Museum’s outdoor historical displays.
In addition to these outdoor displays, the Museum is pleased to offer a wide-ranging collection of historical items, including kitchen equipment, a dental office, pump organs, calculators and typewriters, radios and phonographs, telephone switchboard, preserved wild animals, mining equipment and financial records, photo albums (including family, area, dam-building and mining), clothing displays, Native American artifacts, and a whole section dedicated to the once booming gold mining town of Cornucopia and the surrounding mountains.
We hope you will come to visit and discover things of particular interest to you.
155A E. Record Street Halfway, OR 97834
Fridays 1-4, Saturdays 10-4, and Sundays 10-1 or by appointment.
Open Memorial Day through Labor Day.