CITY PARK
A Landscape Shaped by Generations
Amity City Park has long served as a gathering place where community, history, and landscape come together. The park lies within the traditional homelands of the Yamhill Kalapuya (yamel kalapuya), whose people cared for and shaped this landscape for countless generations.
Today, the park continues to provide a shared space for celebrations, community traditions, and everyday life, connecting Amity’s present-day community with the deeper history of the land.
Willamette Valley illustration: Oregon Historical Society
SNAPSHOT IN TIME
Photos from the Past
Amity Valley Women’s Club
The third annual Hot Cake Breakfast in 1959. Established in 1957, the club used the annual hotcake event to assist in funding high school scholarships, the Amity City Library, and equipment for the Amity Fire Department.
Yamhill Valley News-Register
Rolling to the Rescue
The Amity Fire Department added a disaster response vehicle in 1965.
Yamhill Valley News-Register
Beneficial Burns
Fire was—and remains—a tool of renewal: keeping prairies open, supporting food and fiber plants, and strengthening habitat for many species.
59th Annual Hotcake Breakfast
Classic cars on display at Amity City Park during the 59th Annual Amity Hotcake Breakfast.
Yamhill Valley News-Register
The Valley on Paper: 1851
George Gibbs sketched this map of the Willamette Valley in 1851. The map locates rivers, vegetation zones, Kalapuya lands, and individual holdings.
VOICES OF AMITY
Stories in Their Own Words
Stephanie Craig
Member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Stephanie Craig is a seventh-generation traditional basket weaver, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Lifeways practitioner, and culture keeper who combines ancestral knowledge, traditional plant fibers, and archaeological methods to preserve and revitalize centuries-old practices.
With degrees in Anthropology from the University of Oregon and more than 20 years of experience consulting with museums and agencies, she is dedicated to sharing cultural knowledge and teaching future generations to care for the land, water, plants, and animals.
Amanda Freeman, Ampkwa Images, 2024
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