Moving back downtown -- trivia for local history buffs

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February 18, 2009

This could be a great question for a hypothetical Corvallis trivia game: Where was the first Corvallis Farmers’ Market?

The first farmers’ market in Corvallis began in 1981 in the parking lot of the fire station downtown.

Perhaps the fire alarms drove the farmers further south, because the next three seasons were spent in the vicinity of 2nd and B streets. The south downtown neighborhood was not as hopping as it is today. The market entered a peripatetic phase in various commercial sites near 9th Street and finally achieved a measure of stability when it moved to the Benton County Fairgrounds in the late 1980s.

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