albany is the county seat of linn county, oregon, and is the eleventh largest city in that state.albany is located in the willamette valley at the confluence of the calapooia river and the willamette river in both linn and benton counties, just east of corvallis and south of salem.it is predominantly a farming and manufacturing city that settlers founded around 1848.as of the 2020 united states census, the population of albany, oregon was 56,472.albany has a home rule charter, a council–manager government, and a full-time unelected city manager.the city provides the population with access to over 30 parks and trails, a senior center, and many cultural events such as the northwest art & air festival, river rhythms, summer sounds and movies at monteith.in addition to farming and manufacturing, the city's economy depends on retail trade, health care, and social assistance.in recent years the city has worked to revive the downtown shopping area, with help from the central albany revitalization area.the kalapuya had named the area takenah, a kalapuyan word used to describe the deep pool at the confluence of the calapooia and willamette rivers.a variation of the place name can also be written as tekenah.the kalapuya population in the valley was between 4,000 and 20,000 before contact with europeans, but they suffered high mortality from new infectious diseases introduced shortly afterward.the tribes were decimated by a smallpox epidemic that raged through the pacific northwest in 1782–83.a malaria outbreak swept through the region between 1830 and 1833.it is estimated that as many as 90 percent of the kalapuya population died during this period.that, coupled with the treaties signed during the 1850s by the kalapuya to cede land to the united states, left the area nearly free for european americans to settle.originally a farmer from iowa, abner hackleman arrived as the first european american settler in 1845.taking up a land claim for himself, hackleman asked hiram n. smead to hold another for him until his son arrived from iowa.in 1846, a year after arriving in oregon, hackleman died while returning to iowa to fetch his family.in 1847 a pair of brothers, walter and thomas monteith, settled in the area, after traveling by ox team along the oregon trail from their native state of new york.they were a family of early prominence in the area; in 1848, they bought a claim of 320 acres (1.3 km2) from hiram smead for $400 and a horse; they plotted out 60 acres (240,000 m2) for the town site.they named the city 'albany' after their hometown of albany in new york.during the same period, hackleman's son abram reached his father's original land claim and built a log house in an oak grove still known as hackleman's grove.he later built a house, which still stands at the corner of fifth and jackson.the small settlement that formed on the hackleman land became known as the community of takenah in 1849.during this early period, the monteith and hackleman families were literally and politically on opposite sides of the fence.residents in the monteiths' portion of town were mainly merchants and professionals, who aligned with the republican party.they tended to sympathize with the union during the civil war.the residents in hackleman's portion of town to the east were made up mostly of working-class democrats who sided with the confederacy.the two sides planted a hedge near baker street separating their sides of town.with help from samuel althouse, the monteiths built the first frame house in albany in 1849.
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