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WHERE DINING
AND HISTORY MEET
Parrott House, Roseburg
SARAH SMITH PROVIDED BY PARROTT HOUSE
or thousands of years, men dominated the history books, and women were forgotten. While
Fmost influential women were overlooked by history, every so often a woman came along who no
one could ignore. History remembers the late Rosa Parrott and her family’s house that still stands
in solidarity on a knoll in southeast Roseburg. A teacher of English and philosophy, Parrott was the
tenth child of Moses and Tennessee Parrott, who came to Oregon in the early 1850s. She taught at a
number of prestigious universities, colleges, and schools in the East as well as in Roseburg. Following
her death in 1961, the Parrott House was bought and sold a number of times before Heidi Lael, a
builder by trade, purchased the historic home in 2011.
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