Editing St. Paul, Oregon (section)

== History ==
[[File:Williamcannontombstone.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Tombstone of William Cannon]]
French Prairie settlers built a [[log cabin|log church]] near this locale in 1836.<ref name=OHS>{{cite web |url= http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=6177BAEC-B31E-3DAA-DD43449E981ECD54 |title= St. Paul Catholic Church, Marion County |publisher= [[Oregon Historical Society]] |access-date= 2009-10-15}}</ref> On January 6, 1839, Father (later Archbishop) Blanchet celebrated the first Catholic mass in Oregon at St. Paul, when he blessed the log church and dedicated it to [[Paul of Tarsus|St. Paul]].<ref name=OHS/>

[[St. Paul Roman Catholic Church (St. Paul, Oregon)|St. Paul Roman Catholic Church]] was built in 1846 and is the oldest brick building in the [[Pacific Northwest]].<ref name="OSU">{{cite web |last= Edmonston |first= George P. Jr. |author2= Patricia Filip |title= Rewrites: A look at five OSU researchers who are revolutionizing their academic disciplines |work= Oregon Stater |publisher= [[Oregon State University]] Alumni Association |url= http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/stater/issues/Stater0112/feature6.html |access-date= 2009-10-14 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070222043117/http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/stater/issues/Stater0112/feature6.html |archive-date= 2007-02-22 }}</ref>

St. Paul post office was established in 1874.<ref name=OGN/> The city was incorporated in 1901.

===Pioneer cemetery===
St. Paul Pioneer Cemetery, founded in 1839, is the burial location for [[William Cannon (Pioneer)|William Cannon]], the only authenticated [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] veteran buried in [[Oregon]].<ref name=NPS>{{cite journal |url= http://www.nps.gov/fova/parknews/upload/Fall%202005%20complete.pdf |title= Fort Vancouver's First Blacksmith |author= Laidlaw, Tom |journal= The Forge and Plane |date= Fall 2005 |publisher= Fort Vancouver Trades Guild, [[National Park Service]] |location= [[Fort Vancouver]] |access-date= 2009-10-14}}</ref><ref name=SPMHS>{{cite web |url= http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orspmhs/spwall.html |title= The Wall of Remembrance |publisher= St. Paul Mission Historical Society |access-date= 2009-10-14}}</ref> He had arrived in Oregon in 1811 as part of [[John Jacob Astor]]'s [[American Fur Company]].<ref name=NPS/><ref name=SPMHS/> His is the only grave marked with an upright [[headstone]] in the cemetery.<ref name=OR150>{{cite web |url= http://www.co.marion.or.us/NR/rdonlyres/3B9C4176-0A80-44AF-8B4E-75736099D488/0/or150forprintlr.pdf |title= Marion County: 150 Miles for 150 Years |year= 2009 |publisher= Marion County, Oregon |access-date= 2009-10-15}}</ref> Only one other grave is marked; the rest of the grave markers were mistakenly bulldozed in the 1930s.<ref name=Seattle>{{cite web |url= http://www.seattlearch.org/FormationAndEducation/Progress/062005/Cemetery+Honors+Native+Amer+and+Catholic++++++Pioneers+6-16-05.htm |title= Cemetery dedication honors Native Americans and early Catholic pioneers |author= Langlois, Ed |date= June 9, 2005 |work= Northwest Catholic Progress |publisher= [[Archdiocese of Seattle]] |access-date= 2009-10-15}}</ref>

Along with Cannon, 535 other early settlers and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] are buried in the pioneer cemetery, including [[Étienne Lucier]], known as "The Father of Oregon Agriculture", and [[François Rivet]] and [[Philippe Degre]] who claimed to be members of the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].<ref name=SPMHS/><ref name=Graphic>{{cite news |url= http://archives.newberggraphic.com/news/archive/5-14-05/NewsStory4.htm |date= May 14, 2005 |author= Olson, Gunnar |title= Wall of Remembrance: Recognizing the buried |newspaper= [[The Newberg Graphic]] |access-date= 2009-10-15}}</ref> Rivet had accompanied the expedition as far as [[Fort Mandan]], and Degre attached himself in to the company while they wintered there in 1804–1805.<ref name=SPMHS/><ref name=Clarke>{{cite book |url= http://artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/html/clarke.html |title= The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-One Members and a Composite Diary of their Activities from all Known Sources |author= Clark, Arthur H. |year= 1970 |location= Glendale |page= 66 |access-date= 2009-10-15}}</ref>

A wall of remembrance in the cemetery was dedicated in 2005, with members of the [[Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon]] as honored guests.<ref name=SPMHS/> Early [[French Canadian]] settlers often married women from the local tribes, which included the [[Clackamas (tribe)|Clackamas]], [[Molala people|Molala]] and [[Kalapuya people|Kalapuya]].<ref name=SPMHS/>

Archbishop Blanchet was originally buried in the pioneer cemetery, but his remains were later moved to St. Paul Catholic Cemetery a few blocks away.<ref name=SPMHS/><ref name=Seattle/> The new cemetery was founded in 1875 and includes a "Nuns Corner", where several sisters who had originally been buried in a corner of the convent garden were reinterred.<ref name=Inter>{{cite web |url= http://www.interment.net/data/us/or/marion/stpaul/paul.htm |title= Saint Paul Cemetery, Saint Paul, Marion County, Oregon |publisher= [[Interment.net]] |access-date= 2009-10-15}}</ref><!--need better ref (more reliable source)--> Early settler and provisional legislator [[William J. Bailey]] is also buried at the new cemetery.