"Minto Brown Park"

  

Minto-Brown Island Park was two islands on the Willamette River. As you can imagine from the Arial photo the park lays on a flood plain, and back at the beginning of the century the two islands were owned by a Mr. Brown and a Mr. Minto, respectively. They used to grow hops on the island. The Bush Breyman painting depicts one of the historical building on Commercial Street where the hops were once sold. One major flood left so much soil deposited that when the waters receded, the two islands became one large land mass connected to the shore, in what is now south Salem.

 My painting is from homestead road looking east from the park over some flooded fields.