Editing Willamina, Oregon (section)

==Economy==
[[File:West Valley Fire station in Willamina Oregon.JPG|thumb|West Valley Fire District station in Willamina]]
Willamina experienced an economic boom in 1907, when a [[brick]]-making company, the Pacific Face Brick Company, moved from [[Newberg, Oregon|Newberg]] and opened the Willamina Clay Products plant.<ref name=OE/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=E6CA1E73-C047-6A9F-C46C4F9BAFABD4B7 |title= George Gay House near Hopewell |publisher= [[Oregon Historical Society]] |last= Engeman |first= Richard |access-date= April 19, 2014}}</ref> The [[Sheridan and Willamina Railroad]] was built to the city because of the brick plant, which ran for 82 years.<ref name=OE/><ref name=Plant>{{cite news |url= http://shs.stparchive.com/Archive/SHS/SHS03061991P01.php |title= Willamina Brick Plant Feasibility Study Urged |date= March 6, 1991 |newspaper= The Sun |access-date= April 19, 2014}}</ref> Bricks made at Willamina Clay Products were used in the [[Portland Art Museum]], [[Jackson Tower]], and [[Lloyd Center]] in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], and the [[Yamhill County Courthouse]].<ref name=Plant/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.museumofthecity.org/portland-architecture-pietro-belluschiportland-architecture/ |title= Portland Architecture by Pietro Belluschi |publisher= [[Museum of the City]] |access-date= April 19, 2014}}</ref> The brick plant closed in 1974; the buildings were razed in 1976. The [[red clay]] for the company's products came from Newberg, the [[Kaolinite|white clay]] from Willamina, and the buff clay from [[Buena Vista, Oregon|Buena Vista]].<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=L61PAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA98 |title= Brick Manufacture is Big Industry at Portland |journal= Clay Record |page= 33 |volume= 31 |number= 5 |date= September 14, 1907}}</ref>

The other mainstay of the city's economy is the [[lumber|timber industry]], and when the Pacific Plywood Corporation opened a plant in 1939, the city's population tripled. Willamina became known as "The Little Town with the Big Payroll".<ref name=OE/> As of 2002, the city's largest employers were [[Spirit Mountain Casino (Oregon)|Spirit Mountain Casino]] in nearby [[Grand Ronde, Oregon|Grand Ronde]], Hampton Lumber Company, [[Willamina School District]], Maben Trucking, and Eddy Trucking.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.orinfrastructure.org/profiles/Willamina/ |title= Willamina Community Profile |publisher= [[Business Oregon]] |access-date= April 19, 2014}}</ref>