Soap Creek Valley · Place

Camp Arboretum

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Camp Arboretum: 22 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

CCC camp (former) Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: Camp Arboretum (CCC Camp S-220, Company 3503)

Index references (printed indexes): 32
Transcript mentions: 22

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: 44.65598, -123.23211
How they were found: coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
How far to trust it: inferred
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. 3
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 1, p. 2, p. 3, p. 4, p. 5, p. 6, p. 14, p. 15, p. 16, p. 26, p. 27, p. 28, p. 33, p. 36
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 53
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 46, p. 154, p. 204, p. 220, p. 228, p. 230

In their words

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

They were the second or third group of recruits to occupy Camp Arboretum north of Corvallis.

Edward Sekermestrovich, #4 Edward Sekermestrovich , p. 36

Sekermestrovich, maybe we could start with having you tell us about when you first came to Camp Arboretum and what you remember about that -- your first impression.

Edward Sekermestrovich, #4 Edward Sekermestrovich , p. 1

Dated statements about this place

1925 — The house was located on part of the original tract purchased for the Arboretum by Peaby in 1925. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1925 — Establishment of the State’s forest seedling nursery in the 1920s (McDaniel 1931) and a CCC camp in the 1930s (Thomas 1980) on nearby property provided the trees and manpower necessary to begin planting the new land acquisitions (see Fig. 19; Thomas & Schroeder 1936; Sekermestrovich 1990; Zybach c.1991). Zybach (thesis) · source · 1921–1940
1933 — CCC Camp Arboretum is established adjacent to Oregon Forest Nursery Zybach (thesis) · source · 1921–1940
1935 — [KAREN] Yes, the first group came in around 1935. Karen Thomas · source · 1921–1940
1937 — Yes, I came in 1937. I said in 1938, didn't I? I'm mistaken there. Edward Sekermestrovich · source · 1921–1940
1937-12-20 — [KAREN] That was the third group, and it came into camp December 20, 1937. Karen Thomas · source · 1921–1940
1938 — Right here [pointing to Woodley in 1938 CCC Camp Arboretum Group Photo]. Edward Sekermestrovich · source · 1921–1940
1938-12 — CCC Company 3503, Camp Arboretum, December, 1938 Jackson (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1940-03-23 — "Given under my hand at Camp S-220, Oregon, this 23rd day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty, by George F. Black, CCC Subaltern. Commanding Company 3503 CCC." Royal G. Jackson / Karen Thomas · source · 1921–1940
1942 — What was the camp like after 1942, when it wasn't a 3-C camp anymore? Do you recall? Royal G. Jackson / Karen Thomas · source · 1941–1950
1946 — Oh, no, when I came back the first time I went there. When I came back in 1946 or 1947, or whatever the heck it was. Edward Sekermestrovich · source · 1941–1950
1980 — I was back there two weeks ago, three weeks ago; I took my neighbor up there to look at it. We built a dam up on top, too, by the nursery; we used to go swimming in there. Edward Sekermestrovich · source · 1971–1995
1990-08 — [EDITOR'S NOTE: I asked Mr. Sekermestrovich in August, 1990, if it was possible that the buildings were green. His wife said that she remembered them as green, and he agreed that they may have been that color.] Jackson (editorial) · source · 1971–1995

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