Stop Three: Redmond, Then and Now

If this is week three of the Crazy 8s Author Tour, then the next stop for Blue Thread must be Redmond, Oregon. That’s the Redmond that was first settled by homesteaders Frank and Josephine Redmond, as opposed to Redmond, Washington, which got its name from homesteader Luke McRedmond.

Back in the Blue Thread era (the Portland 1912 part), Redmond was just getting started. A private irrigation company had platted the town (with plots of land and a canal system) in 1906 or so, and electrification...