What do you know about the history of the land where Everyone Village sits? What’s the history of the land that Everyone Village is on?

Basic Timeline of the Site of Everyone Village

“The Long Tom Watershed was the original homelands to two major tribes of Kalapuyan Indians, the Chelamela and Chemapho tribes. The Chelamela occupied the upper or southern part of the watershed from the Coast Range to the Willamette at Eugene, and from the Calapooia range to the Reservoir.”

— Source: (The Long Tom Watershed, n.d.)

“In 1949, the Reynolds family moved to the West 11th area, then outside the city, after the county evicted them and other black families from what is now Alton Baker Park to make way for construction of the Ferry Street Bridge.

The families had been living in what was known as the Ferry Street Village as landowning whites wouldn’t rent to them. Their small home without power or water, Sam and Mattie Reynolds raised a family and helped build a community in austere conditions with a mix of faith, dignity and kindness, relatives said.

”Even though it was rough and even though, as my uncle said, we couldn’t have homes in the city, it was a community,” said Quentin Reynolds, one of the couple’s grandchildren who lived in the area as a young boy. “And that’s what really kept us together.””

— Source: (Hill, The Register Guard, n.d.)