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K. Applegate Trail

K. Applegate Trail of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 42 — 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. 42
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. 42

K. Applegate Trail

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yeah, well see Wiles is.. . they farmed that, that's farm land. And that was about their border.

Bob Zybach: Up on the other side there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: That side of the field was their border, through there, more or less. Between the hill property, and I don't know who owned the hill.

Bob Zybach: Okay, now there's an orchard up there, we can see it. You said there used to be a lot of wild pears around. But there's some apples up in there.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yeah, wild apples, used to be a lot of apples too.

Bob Zybach: And there is some sites of some old buildings up in that area.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Oh, there is? I can't remember them.

Bob Zybach: You can't remember anything up there.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No, no.

Bob Zybach: Okay. And there is some old. . . there is an old road and trail along right between the edge of the cultivation and that brush there. Can you remember anything about an old road through there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No, only thing I can figure is maybe they took wood out of the place there. Or maybe a few logs at one time.

Bob Zybach: Now, we're going along Tampico Road and we're coming right into the north face of Writsman 's Hill. And on the left, on the west side there's a strip of vegetation. Do you recall anything around that vegetation through there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: No, I don't. See now the Writsman place joined the Stambaugh place down there where we stopped, you know. And there used to be - there was been some cleared so there was more uncleared land down just east of us here.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Now this out through here was haiiy vetch fields?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yeah, hairy vetch. At one time when Dobrinin owned the place and I worked for him and he had a pretty large field of buckwheat down in there.

Bob Zybach: This side there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Now on this corner there is a concrete plate. We're right at the gate. And it goes along the base of Writsman 's Hill along the south side. Do you remember any structures or anything

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

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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. K. Applegate Trail, p. 42. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/k-applegate-trail/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 42 — Monograph #05:42
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