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Home › Township › Setting & Landmarks › Key Landmarks Briarmont’s landmarks are not merely notable places on a map, but visible traces of the town’s long and complicated history. Many of them stand at the intersection of memory, industry, restoration, and loca...

Home › Township › Families › Briggs › The Briggs Family The Briggs family is Briarmont's great working family. Edgar Briggs did not build an empire — he built a home, a trade, and a life that endured, and the family has been respected ever since not for ambiti...

Home › Township › Families › Hale › The Hale Family The Hale family is the quietest of Briarmont's three founding bloodlines. Three lines — Ashton, Hale, and Briggs — settled Briarmont's earliest homesteads, and of the three the Hales left the thinnest record:...

Home › Township › Families › Hartwell › The Hartwell Family The Hartwell family stands at the very origin of Briarmont. Though few Hartwells remain as individual figures in the record, the family name is woven through the entire town: its founding industry, it...

Home › Township › Families › Ashton › The Ashton Family The Ashton family is one of Briarmont's founding families — the line of managers and stewards that made the town's timber enterprise function at scale. If Elias Hartwell represented appetite, the Ashtons ...

Home › Oakridge College › Greek Life › Alpha Chi Epsilon › AXE Founding Lore— First Winter Home › Historical Archive › College Origins › AXE Founding Lore— First Winter Part one: The land that was taken Alpha Chi Epsilon took first shape in the autumn of 1919,...

Home › Oakridge College › Greek Life › Alpha Chi Epsilon › The Season of Storms The winter of 1919 brought six weeks of sustained rain to the Briarmont coast, with two major flooding events in the harbor and widespread slope failure on the bare hillsides above...