Soap Creek Valley · Place
Camp Adair
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Camp Adair: 87 transcript mentions across 15 records, grouped by who was speaking.
military camp Tour map key D
Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 87
- Transcript mentions
- 87
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Provenance
- Coordinates
- 44.70000, -123.20833
- 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
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Who speaks of it
- Auto Tour, 1989 p. 21, p. 24
- Bessie Murphy p. 48, p. 49, p. 57
- Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 45
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 123, p. 127, p. 133, p. 138, p. 149, p. 155
- Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 47, p. 51, p. 54
- Edward Sekermestrovich p. 4
- Eugene Glender p. 2, p. 13, p. 20, p. 34, p. 38, p. 47, p. 55, p. 71, p. 79, p. 83
- James Hanish p. 17
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 4, p. 22, p. 36, p. 37, p. 40, p. 45, p. 50, p. 54, p. 57, p. 87, p. 92, p. 93, p. 97, p. 106, p. 109, p. 111, p. 112, p. 118, p. 121
- Lorna Grabe p. 12, p. 57
- Marvin Rowley p. 28
- Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 12, p. 22, p. 44, p. 65, p. 94, p. 115, p. 124, p. 125
- Velma Carter Rawie p. 9, p. 16, p. 39, p. 41, p. 43, p. 47, p. 59, p. 60, p. 68, p. 74, p. 76, p. 78, p. 82
- Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 17
- Zybach 1999 thesis p. 124, p. 142, p. 143, p. 147, p. 148, p. 149, p. 151, p. 152, p. 154, p. 156, p. 199, p. 202, p. 204, p. 225, p. 229, p. 247
In their words
Just east of the highway there was customers, but all the customers west of the highway were bought out by Camp Adair, see.
[JAKE] Oh hell, west of the highway was Camp Adair, sure.
Dated statements about this place
- 1846 — The Marcks family farm encompassed much of the 1846 David Carson Donation Land Claim and subsequently became part of Camp Adair during World War II.
- 1849 — The Wellsdale site, originally pioneered by Tolbert Carter by 1849, became part of Camp Adair in 1941.
- c. 1929 — Yes, this is where Kester lived and he rented since about 1929, I think was when he rented this place and they rented it until Camp Adair took over.
- 1940 — I taught there for two years, 1940-42, when this area became part of Camp Adair.
- 1941/1945 — Did Camp Adair, did they own that property during World War II?
- 1941 — PHOTOGRAPHS OF CAMP ADAIR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES WERE TAKEN BY WILLIE ROHNER IN 1941.
- 1941 — [JAKE] They lived almost in Wells, had a farm there. Yeah, they did own it didn't they? So when Camp Adair came along and bought them out they moved to La Grande.
- 1941 — The establishment of Camp Adair at the outset of WW II ... resulted in the large scale evacuation of most Soap Creek Valley residents, an almost complete stoppage of farming and logging practices in The Valley, and the removal of most fencing, houses, and barns.
- 1941 — This change in land use resulted in a noticeable increase in deer, bear, and raptor populations, likely due to the general lack of competition from domestic animals and a sharp reduction in predator control, hunting, and fishing by local residents.
- 1941 — US Army establishes Camp Adair, begins training in Soap Creek Valley
- 1941-12-12 — On December 12, just a few days after Pearl Harbor, Camp Adair was established to handle 33,000 men.
- 1942 — Stellmacher House Photograph. No one knows why the house was moved to this location. It burned in 1942, shortly after the establishment of Camp Adair.
- 1942 — Somewhere I think just prior to when Camp Adair came in in 1942.
- 1942 — We moved out before Camp Adair came in.
- 1942 — Early in 1942 the first flag was raised over Camp Adair.
- February 1942 — fairly wet ground, and they started building in February, at the worst possible time.
- 1944 — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1944. Camp Adair. Corvallis. OreQon: Training Aids General Layout.
- 1946 — I think it was 1946 when I first heard that Camp Adair was slated for disposal.
- 1946 — After the War, much of the Camp Adair property was obtained by OSU (see Maps 3 and 16), and families began to move on to adjacent properties. Many of the new families were residential, rather than farmers, and new home construction reflected this change (Grabe 1990).
- 1951 — Barracks Photograph. In 1951 the U.S. Army sold surplus buildings to local landowners and other buyers.
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