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H. Stambaugh Lane

H. Stambaugh Lane of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 35 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

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Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 30, 1990 · Automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area, Benton County, Oregon
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 35
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part II. Printed session note: "The following transcript was made from a recorded interview with Jake Rohner that took place during an automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area on September 30, 1990. Stopping points along the tour route are noted on the map at the front of this book with alphabetized letters. The same alphabetic system is used in the following text to coordinate discussions with speqfic [specific] locations." Fifteen lettered stops, A-O.

p. 35

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: right in there somewhere.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

H. Stambaugh Lane

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: If I could find the Stambaugh lane here, I could tell better, but it's all grown up so much. It really has grown up. As I remember it, it was pretty clear going back in there.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: It just about had to be further down here, because there's a big oak tree that was. the house went back in there, there was brush just like those ash there and stuff behind, and then on that side there was all, there was about a 4-acre field in there. I see a big oak tree, it must have been down here a little bit further then. Then there was brush along the creek. Here, by golly, yeah, there's the field so the Stambaugh house was right back in there. So, that's pretty close to where the bridge used to be. Because I know after we went through the gate we come this way a little ways and went in.

Bob Zybach: What kinds of crops did the Mackeys raise?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Well, they had some cows and some horses, and they raised hay. Here we can see better. That was the field there, and then the house was up against those trees over in there and the barn was down toward the other end of the field.

Bob Zybach: So where those blackberries are? We're looking at a little opening, could that have been the Stainbaugh lane? This little opening?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yeah, this must have been the Stambaugh lane and that bridge must be darn near to where it was.

Bob Zybach: Was it pointed in the same direction, too?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: It was more of an angle, it went more straight across.

Bob Zybach: Did they ever have any trouble with flooding in here?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No.

Bob Zybach: Can you remember any geese or duck migrations through this area?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Oh, yes, every year they migrate one way or the other. Through this area. I think more or less clear across the valley. Yeah, they haven't any of them that I know of

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

How to cite this item

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As printed: Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
This page: Rohner 1993. H. Stambaugh Lane, p. 35. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/h-stambaugh-lane/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 35 — Monograph #05:35
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