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N.. Stage Stop Lane

N.. Stage Stop Lane of Eugene Glender — printed pp. 75–76 — recorded January 6, 1990 at Tampico area, Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob and Janet Meranda 1994. Eugene Glender. Growing Up on a Tampico Family Farm, Benton County, Oregon: 1910-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #09. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 155 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

Narrator
Eugene Glender
Recorded
January 6, 1990 · Tampico area, Soap Creek Valley, Benton County, Oregon
Interviewer
Bob Zybach, Jan Meranda
Printed pages
pp. 75–76

Tape-recorded driving tour with lettered stops A-S; mileages are called out during the recording. Chapter headings correspond to circled letters on the Glender Tampico Tour Map.

p. 75

Bob Zybach: Still looks pretty similar?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, it hasn't changed much.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

N. Stage Stop Lane

Bob Zybach: We're at Stage Stop Lane.

Eugene Glender: The guy that built that up in there

Jan Meranda: [Jan] Thirteen

Eugene Glender: used to be a sheriff at Albany.

Bob Zybach: A sheriff of Albany moved here?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you know what year he did that?

Eugene Glender: No. It was when we still lived here, when he built that.

Bob Zybach: Oh, this place is an old place; this goes back to the thirties?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, something like that.

Bob Zybach: And a sherzfffrom Albany built it?

Eugene Glender: Yeah, he worked for the Sheriff Department

Bob Zybach: Does that family still own it?

Eugene Glender: I haven't the slightest idea. I haven't heard had any contact with anybody from there for years ... for a long, long time now.

Bob Zybach: So they moved ... they were here the same time the Mallows were here?

Eugene Glender: I think so. And it's just about that time there when... I can't remember really when they built in there.

Bob Zybach: What's the mileage here?

Jan Meranda: [Jan] Thirteen point seven.

Bob Zybach: Thirteen point seven. This driveway was just put in at that time when he built?

Eugene Glender: Yeah. Asfaraslknow.

Bob Zybach: Were there any orchards or anything through here that you recall?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Now that road there comes down from the Dunn Forest with a gate, do you know was that in here in those days?

p. 76

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: That's new?

Eugene Glender: That's new.

Bob Zybach: Okay. A mail box is up there on the left, is there a reason ... does that belong to this place here?

Eugene Glender: I think that might be where the road went that went up to the house. I'm not sure.

Bob Zybach: So this might be a new road right here, Stage Stop Lane?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Do you recall the name of that man?

Eugene Glender: Kirk.

Bob Zybach: Kirk?

Eugene Glender: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And Kirk moved in here in the 1930's, took some. undeveloped property and built a house?

Eugene Glender: I guess he built, I don't know if there was a house ... I can't remember there being a house, but if there was one ... there could have been, too.

Bob Zybach: You don't remember anybody here before him?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Is there a reason to stop by that mail box up there?

Eugene Glender: Not that I know of, no.

Bob Zybach: Okay. Do you know anything about the Kirk family; did they have kids?

Eugene Glender: Idon'tthinkso.

Bob Zybach: So, maybe was he retired or something?

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: Did he keep working in Albany?

Eugene Glender: I think he was at Albany.

Bob Zybach: Did he raise any crops or

Eugene Glender: No.

Bob Zybach: All these fields here

Eugene Glender: This here was all Mallow's, their last.

Bob Zybach: Okay. I can't think of anything else here. Can you think of anything else?

Eugene Glender: No.

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

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Zybach, Bob and Janet Meranda 1994. Eugene Glender. Growing Up on a Tampico Family Farm, Benton County, Oregon: 1910-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #09. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 155 pp.
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Glender 1994. N.. Stage Stop Lane, pp. 75–76. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m09-glender/n-stage-stop-lane/ (accessed 2026).
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