This group is more that just Mari-Linn, it is also about growing up in the canyon, our little corner of Heaven on Earth. Some of remember Lyons when Hwy 226 was the only paved road in town; when a fire meant calling Mill City and Stayton, the closest fire departments; when everyone in town knew what five blasts of the millwrights whistle meant fire and the volunteer firemen were rolling before the call came in; when there were fire phones at the Corner Store, at the fire chief's home and a couple of other locations and each had a button to blow the siren. I remember Lyons didn't have sidewalks. I knew every mud puddle between Mari-Linn and our home on the corner between the telephone office and stores across from the Corner Market (I think it has a new name now). I walked to and from school every day for 8 years. I also remember the arrival of dial telephones. What a wonderful town to grow up in.
We are all students of the school. The name came about when several one and two room schools were consolidated after World War II. The new district was located in both Linn and Marion Counties, along the North Santiam River.
