Praying for Oregon Counties: Yamhill
Yamhill County, Oregon They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat of their fruit…And my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands . Isaiah 65: 21, 22 While all the counties of Oregon are interesting and unique, Yamhill is one of the more fascinating. One of the oldest counties in Oregon, it is heavy with history. The original Yamhill District was one of the four original districts created by the Provisional Legislature in 1843. The other three were Twality (Washington), Clackamas, and Champooick (Marion), and, of course, all were huge. Yamhill originally was 12,000 square miles and encompassed the area from the Willamette River to the coast and from the Columbia River to the California border. Now it is an area in the heart of the Willamette Valley of about 718 square miles with Tillamook County to the west, Polk to the south, Washington to the north, and Clackamas and Marion to the east. In 1847 the town of Lafayette , which was a on...