Soap Creek Valley · Place
California
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about California: 54 transcript mentions across 13 records, grouped by who was speaking.
state No coordinate
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 91
- Transcript mentions
- 54
This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.
Provenance
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Who speaks of it
- Bessie Murphy p. 58, p. 70
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 153, p. 169
- Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 3, p. 4, p. 45, p. 46
- Edward Sekermestrovich p. 14
- Eugene Glender p. 5, p. 20, p. 83, p. 99, p. 102
- James Hanish p. 5, p. 10, p. 16, p. 21, p. 65, p. 74, p. 75, p. 76
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 58, p. 76, p. 98
- Marvin Rowley p. 7, p. 30, p. 36, p. 90
- Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 18, p. 30, p. 38, p. 72, p. 85, p. 89, p. 104
- Paul M. Dunn p. 5, p. 7, p. 8, p. 15, p. 32
- Velma Carter Rawie p. 30, p. 90, p. 91, p. 104, p. 111
- Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 3, p. 17, p. 29, p. 44, p. 47
- William A. Davies p. 7, p. 41, p. 73
In their words
From California back to New Jersey, and the enrollment grew.
I was acquainted with Oregon, even while I was in Utah, through meetings and other excursions into the Northwest and California.
Dated statements about this place
- 1828 — 6 The "California Trail" of 1828 1845.
- 1840 — This is one of the first areas settled in Benton County, about 1840, before Applegate Trail, before the California Gold Rush, before Oregon Territory.
- 1850 — Strange as it may seem, it is my candid opinion that from the first settlement of this country tifi 1850, the time when gold commenced flooding the country from California, was the happiest days the country has ever seen.
- 1855/1856 — In 1855 or 1856 a miner from the gold fields of California stopped at a Corvallis saloon to fortify himself for the remainder of the journey to Salem, where he was to visit his sweetheart.
- 1858 — the Beatty fir trees (reputed to have been planted in 1858 along the old wagon road to the California gold mines) are seen to the immediate east of the home.
- 1896 — yeah, he was probably born in California because my dad was born in 1896, so 1876, it'd been probably .
- 1901 — Then your mom, from about 1901, she's going to California during the winters and going to school there.
- 1935 — And then you were down in California maybe in the mid-30's?
- 1937-1938 — My folks know, I was in California at the time. And they wrote and told me they couldn't. . . in fact the ranchers had to go out and chop down fir trees for the sheep to eat the needles, there was no feed. It was just covered.
- 1941 — My uncle, Will Meador in El Cajon, California said his friend and partner was in the Naval Reserve, and was called in to assist the British to operate U.S. destroyers. His ship was the Reuben James. I helped my uncle to run his vegetable and fruit ranch: irrigate, train berry vines, drive a tractor. I made a soil conservation dam
- 1944 — Neil Vanderburg and sister, Shirley Morris, on Appleton Street in Gleneden (now Glendale), California, 1944.
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