Soap Creek Valley · 1989 Auto Tour

STOP #8 SOAP CREEK SCHOOL [Education]

Stop 8 of the 1989 Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour, printed page 23.

19.0 miles from the Peavy Arboretum entrance on the 1989 route. Open these pages in the original PDF · Read the text below

Original illustrated spread for STOP #8 SOAP CREEK SCHOOL [Education], printed pages 22–23. The transcribed text and picture captions follow below. — Bob Zybach, *Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour* (1989), pp. 22–23. Enlarge the pages.

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p. 23

The Soap Creek School District is reputed to be the oldest in Benton County, with some authorities placing its beginning in a log structure erected during the fall of 1847. It was finally closed in the spring of 1946 and the remaining children transferred to Mountain View School the following school year. During the century of their mutual existences, the Soap Creek and Tampico schools were occasionally one and the same. The location of the school varied from the intersection of Tampico and Sulphur Springs Roads [Stop #5] and this stop, with at least 2 additional locations in between. Generally the location depended upon the sizes of the local families and the ages of their children. When conditions warranted, both schools would operate simultaneously, as occurred between 1924 and 1941. This particular building was first used in 1932. The Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation is preserving and restoring the school and its grounds as an historic site. During "open houses" scheduled in May, July, and October, visitors may read collected local histories, see early Soap Creek Valley photographs, and observe the books, equipment, and furnishings typical of a depression-era "country" school. For more information, please refer to page 31 of this guide.

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Auto Tour stops(2)

STOP #5 TAMPICO [Towns]Named at this stop
STOP #8 SOAP CREEK SCHOOL [Education]Education

Roads(2)

Sulphur Springs RoadNamed at this stop
Tampico RoadNamed at this stop

Valleys(1)

Soap Creek ValleyNamed at this stop

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TampicoNamed at this stop

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Places. Benton County · Mountain View School · Tampico · Tampico Road · Sulphur Springs Road · Soap Creek Valley

Narrators who speak of this place

Pages recorded in the collection index where a narrator names one of the places this stop stands on. Each number opens that page of the transcript.

#1 Lorna Grabe Narrator: Lorna Grabe p. 15, p. 59, p. 60, p. 7, p. 14, p. 7, p. 8, p. 15, p. 66, p. 12
#2 Paul M. Dunn Narrator: Paul M. Dunn p. 40
#3 Donald Dickey Narrator: Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 23, p. 59, p. 15, p. 25, p. 43, p. 15
#5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 11, p. 13, p. 27, p. 28, p. 42, p. 51, p. 53, p. 83, p. 84
#6 James Hanish Narrator: James Hanish p. 23, p. 34, p. 23, p. 34
#7 Charlie Olson Narrator: Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 80, p. 81, p. 82, p. 83, p. 84, p. 85, p. 1, p. 2, p. 17, p. 58, p. 60, p. 83, p. 1, p. 2, p. 3, p. 4, p. 5, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9, p. 39, p. 50, p. 83, p. 90, p. 91, p. 123, p. 124, p. 125, p. 127, p. 129, p. 91, p. 95, p. 123, p. 125, p. 128
#8 Neil Vanderburg Narrator: Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 1, p. 12, p. 86, p. 96, p. 101, p. 127, p. 1, p. 2, p. 27, p. 39, p. 53, p. 63, p. 70, p. 79, p. 85, p. 86, p. 120, p. 124, p. 126, p. 127, p. 27, p. 39, p. 53, p. 63, p. 70, p. 79, p. 85
#9 Eugene Glender Narrator: Eugene Glender p. 3, p. 5, p. 10, p. 27, p. 44, p. 105, p. 106, p. 1, p. 3, p. 4, p. 5, p. 56, p. 3, p. 8, p. 13, p. 38, p. 39, p. 56, p. 93, p. 111, p. 112, p. 117
#10 Velma Carter Rawie Narrator: Velma Carter Rawie p. 3, p. 5, p. 8, p. 10, p. 32, p. 60, p. 82, p. 85, p. 100, p. 108, p. 115, p. 116, p. 3, p. 5, p. 35, p. 57, p. 67, p. 74, p. 75, p. 84
#11 Bessie Murphy Narrator: Bessie Murphy p. 52, p. 105, p. 50, p. 13
#12 Wanda Marcks Cook Narrator: Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 38, p. 39, p. 4, p. 44, p. 68, p. 69, p. 76, p. 80, p. 85, p. 13, p. 18, p. 24, p. 28, p. 30, p. 32, p. 51, p. 54, p. 55, p. 66, p. 73, p. 74, p. 84, p. 9, p. 44
#13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES Narrator: William A. Davies p. 17, p. 19
#14 Charles and Norman Hindes Narrator: Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 1, p. 3, p. 5, p. 7, p. 35, p. 67, p. 1, p. 3, p. 5, p. 19, p. 25, p. 26, p. 52, p. 3, p. 17, p. 19, p. 23, p. 34, p. 40, p. 52, p. 34, p. 52
#15 Marvin Rowley Narrator: Marvin Rowley p. 30, p. 95, p. 106, p. 34, p. 35, p. 36, p. 34, p. 35, p. 36

Photographs printed with this stop

This picture, taken in 1900, is of the new Soap Creek schoolhouse. It may have actually been the third, fourth, or fifth building to serve the district since its inception, sometime after 1845. The previous school, also constructed in 1899 and used for just a few months, was simply hauled to the rear of the new building and converted to a woodshed. The small structure in the background is not the woodshed. Printed page 22

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As printed: Zybach, Bob 1989. Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 32 pp.
This page: Zybach 1989. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/auto-tour/stop-8/
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