Soap Creek Valley · Place

Albany

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Albany: 55 transcript mentions across 11 records, grouped by who was speaking.

town Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list

Also printed as: ALBANY · Albany, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 55

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

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Provenance

Coordinates: 44.63651, -123.10593
How they were found: coordinate from USGS GNIS; name match verified
How far to trust it: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 2, p. 3, p. 5
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 105, p. 144, p. 149, p. 150, p. 154, p. 169, p. 170
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 1, p. 4, p. 5, p. 10, p. 31
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 7, p. 8, p. 14, p. 32, p. 43, p. 59, p. 60, p. 72, p. 75, p. 76, p. 102
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 34
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 11, p. 14, p. 57, p. 61, p. 105, p. 112
Lorna Grabe in #1 Lorna Grabe p. 43, p. 64
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 10, p. 38, p. 101, p. 104, p. 141
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 4, p. 5, p. 9, p. 18, p. 38, p. 39
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 17, p. 42, p. 61, p. 86
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 82, p. 211, p. 217, p. 228, p. 253

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Well, north of Albany a ways.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 57

And he had 52 acres out of Albany, about 3-1/2 miles north of Albany, out there by Fir Grove.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 149

Dated statements about this place

1910-04-09 — Received of John W. Cook for account of Tyrone P. Cook. Five Hundred Dols act purchased price of 1348, acres of land know as the Baker Farm near Corvailis, Ore, now owned by the 1st Nat. Bank of Albany, Oregon for the sum of Twenty Thousand Dols. Six thousand dols on delivery of satisfactory Abstract of Title. Balance ($5000,) five Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1942 — The united Glender families moved to Albany in 1942 and were never allowed to return to their Tampico home. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1941–1950

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Albany (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Albany. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/albany/
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