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S.. Lee Brown's Place
S.. Lee Brown's Place of Charlie Olson — printed p. 90 — recorded January 29, 1990 at Sulphur Springs and Soap Creek Valley area, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Zybach, Bob and Angela C. Sondenaa 1994. Charlie Olson. Biographical Sketch and Early History of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Oregon: 1900-1920. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #07. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 185 pp.
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- From
- #7 Charlie Olson
- Narrator
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson
- Recorded
- January 29, 1990 · Sulphur Springs and Soap Creek Valley area, Benton County, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Bob Zybach, Angela Sondenaa
- Printed pages
- p. 90
- Original
- http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/07_Olson/Zybach-Sondenaa_1994.pdf
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Charlie Olson: went down there and there was somebody that had an accident some way and they had operated on him, I think he had lost an arm or something and they had operated on him, but he was under ether at the time and they would call his name once in a while and he'd grunt. But they were trying to bring him to. That was a sawmill there.
Bob Zybach: About the turn of the century then?
Charlie Olson: Yeah.
Bob Zybach: Was it operating?
Charlie Olson: It was operating at that time because he had that accident you know. And they had a sawdust pile that we kids could go back and play on when we went to school.
Bob Zybach: But it wasn't operating while you were growing up, it was a real old sawmill.
Charlie Olson: It was gone. It was gone when I started to go to school, why it was gone.
Bob Zybach: Did you have any name associated with it or anything?
Charlie Olson: No.
Bob Zybach: So we had the Govier sawmill, Sulphur Springs sawmill, and then a third saw,nill site in back of the school that was there before the turn of the century. On the Goviers, I'm going to be talking to somebody else about their family history so I can get some information from them. Can you think of any other thing associated with this site that you might think is important or interesting?
Charlie Olson: No.
S. Lee Brown's Place
Bob Zybach: Lee Brown's place had silver maple, is that maybe what some of these things that have gone to weed here?
Charlie Olson: I think there's still sprouts from that silver maple.
Bob Zybach: Now Lee Brown was one Brown brother that hadn't murdered anybody.
Charlie Olson: That's right.
Bob Zybach: And you worked with him?
Charlie Olson: Yeah.
Bob Zybach: So the Browns lived down through this area about the turn of the century, and towards the Tampico area?
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 and Angela C. Sondenaa 1994. Charlie Olson. Biographical Sketch and Early History of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Oregon: 1900-1920. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #07. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 185 pp.
- This page
- Olson 1994. S.. Lee Brown's Place, p. 90. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m07-olson/s-lee-brown-s-place/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Olson 1994, p. 90 — Monograph #07:90
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