A novel idea: Naming Hermiston
In the early 1900s, J. F. McNaught , the community's first postmaster, named the town Hermiston at the suggestion of his wife Jennie, after Robert Louis Stevenson’s unfinished novel Weir of Hermiston. The city was incorporated July 10, 1907. There's a direct and fascinating connection between the city of Hermiston and the novel. There are actually two Scottish Hermistons worth knowing about: The better-known one is a hamlet
The Birth of Shari’s Restaurant
In the beginning, there was one Shari’s restaurant in Hermiston, Oregon. Word spread fast about its 24-hour dining, extensive pie offerings and bottomless cups of coffee. Soon, there were lines out the door. As a result, Shari’s Cafes appeared in Sherwood and Newberg, Ore., and then throughout the Northwest. Ron and Sharon Bergquist opened the first Shari's restaurant, named after Sharon, on South Highway 395 in 1978.
