Soap Creek Valley · Place

Astoria

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Astoria: 5 transcript mentions across 2 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 5

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: 46.18788, -123.83125
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

Auto Tour, 1989 written by Bob Zybach — Auto Tour, 1989 p. 6, p. 7, p. 28
Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 10, p. 39

In their words

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

Traders based in Astoria had been operating in the area since 1811, encouraging the local Indians to exchange native foods and animal skins for blue beads, guns, blankets, horses and alcohol.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 7

Although these old-growth trees are titled "pines," it appears that they are a stand of Douglas-fir and Hemlock, possibly in the vicinity of Astoria.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 28

Dated statements about this place

1811 — Traders based in Astoria had been operating in the area since 1811, encouraging the local Indians to exchange native foods and animal skins for blue beads, guns, blankets, horses and alcohol. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · Before 1844
1900 — She was born before 1900. In the year 1900, she was five years old and her family moved to Corvallis. They were originally from Astoria, before that her ancestors from one side of the family lived in Tennessee, then Missouri, then they moved to Oregon. On the other side of the family they lived in Philadelphia, then they moved to Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1900 — In the year 1900, she was five years old and her family moved to Corvallis. They were originally from Astoria, before that her ancestors from one side of the family lived in Tennessee, then Missouri, then they moved to Oregon. On the other side of the family they lived in Philadelphia, then they moved to Kansas and then they came Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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