Built in 1905 and named for its colorful owner, Bill Flynn’s Saloon was a favorite hangout for residents and weary travelers. Farmers parked their wagons outside to rest their horses before the climb up “Whiskey Hill,” where the present-day freeway underpass is located. Wayfarers cozied up to a mahogany bar while awaiting passage on the river ferry, and during the saloon’s heyday more than 200 construction workers who built the railway bridge during Wilsonville’s first “boom,” 1906-07, were also customers. The saloon closed in 1914, six months before the state went dry, reopened after Prohibition ended in 1933, and was renamed the Ronoake Inn in honor of the brand-name house specialty whiskey served there. Used for storage purposes for many years, the building survived until April 1971, when it collapsed during a wind storm.