Soap Creek Valley · Place
Corvallis
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Corvallis: 220 transcript mentions across 17 records, grouped by who was speaking.
city
Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 14
- Transcript mentions
- 220
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Provenance
- Coordinates
- 44.56457, -123.26204
- How they were found
- coordinate from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; 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. 2, p. 12, p. 25, p. 31
- Bessie Murphy p. 3, p. 7, p. 10, p. 12, p. 18, p. 30, p. 31, p. 33, p. 42, p. 45, p. 49, p. 50, p. 52, p. 59, p. 63, p. 64, p. 66, p. 69, p. 72, p. 77, p. 92, p. 100, p. 103, p. 105
- Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 1, p. 3, p. 4, p. 6, p. 11, p. 17, p. 25, p. 35
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 3, p. 8, p. 10, p. 11, p. 12, p. 29, p. 53, p. 60, p. 61, p. 76, p. 78, p. 92, p. 93, p. 94, p. 100, p. 105, p. 110, p. 113, p. 115, p. 117, p. 119, p. 129, p. 133, p. 134, p. 135, p. 141, p. 142, p. 144, p. 145, p. 150, p. 153, p. 154, p. 170
- Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 10, p. 11, p. 15, p. 25, p. 39
- Edward Sekermestrovich p. 1, p. 5, p. 9, p. 10, p. 11, p. 14, p. 29, p. 31, p. 33, p. 34, p. 36, p. 37
- Eugene Glender p. 11, p. 14, p. 33, p. 55, p. 72, p. 81, p. 93
- James Hanish p. 5, p. 9, p. 17, p. 20, p. 25, p. 70, p. 75, p. 76
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 6, p. 8, p. 56, p. 57, p. 59, p. 64, p. 72, p. 85, p. 90, p. 93, p. 94, p. 108, p. 111, p. 112, p. 122
- Lorna Grabe p. 7, p. 33, p. 42
- Marvin Rowley p. 10, p. 28, p. 32, p. 35, p. 38, p. 44, p. 46, p. 59, p. 68, p. 94, p. 97, p. 110, p. 119, p. 123
- Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 1, p. 3, p. 6, p. 12, p. 28, p. 29, p. 32, p. 60, p. 70, p. 96, p. 98, p. 104, p. 108
- Paul M. Dunn p. 1, p. 17, p. 28, p. 32, p. 40
- Velma Carter Rawie p. 1, p. 4, p. 5, p. 10, p. 16, p. 18, p. 21, p. 23, p. 35, p. 36, p. 44, p. 58, p. 69, p. 75, p. 76, p. 85, p. 97, p. 99, p. 100, p. 116
- Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 18, p. 23, p. 42, p. 44, p. 56, p. 61, p. 68, p. 76, p. 85, p. 86
- William A. Davies p. 2, p. 6, p. 16, p. 30, p. 34, p. 77
- Zybach 1999 thesis p. 30, p. 41, p. 49, p. 51, p. 81, p. 86, p. 137, p. 138, p. 140, p. 143, p. 154, p. 212, p. 213, p. 214, p. 215, p. 216, p. 217, p. 218, p. 219, p. 220, p. 221, p. 222, p. 223, p. 224, p. 225, p. 226, p. 227, p. 228, p. 229, p. 230, p. 231, p. 232, p. 320
In their words
So the Lewisburg Grange was where North Corvallis Farmer's Group Union was located, and the names and phone numbers you got here are kind of the principal characters in preserving the building.
The government came in, and purchased about 90,000 acres in the area that is 10 to 15 miles north of Corvallis, extending on both sides of 99W for some distance.
Dated statements about this place
- 1850s — Ponderosa pine] in the 1850's, do you ever remember seeing any pine?
- 1852-08-13 — He was married to Mrs. Martha Angeline Bileui on August 13, 1852, and made his permanent home afew miles north of the City of Corvallis.
- 1853 — Okay, what I was trying to explain is the 1853 maps show Hilltop Road where Highland Way is now. And then it showed a route going out around what we call the Jackson Frazier wetlands, back in 1853. So people traveling out of Corvallis that hit those wetlands, went up the route we've been talking about, and connected to a
- 1853 — And then it showed a route going out around what we call the Jackson Frazier wetlands, back in 1853. So people traveling out of Corvallis that hit those wetlands, went up the route we've been talking about, and connected to a road that was called Hilltop Road. In 1853. And that's what became Highland Way in 1905. [PHIL] So what
- 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.
- 1890s — In the 1890's many Corvallis residents took part in the new fad of bicycling by taking a trip to Sulphur Springs.
- 1900 — She moved with her family in 1900 to the Crescent Valley area near Corvallis, where she grew up on a farm.
- 1900 — Corvallis in 1900 was a very small town. And Second St. was
- 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
- 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
- 1905 — Around 1905 it was called Ninth Street.
- 1905/1915 — It shows Benton Hall from the northeast, sometime between 1905 and 1915.
- 1910 — That year also saw the first class of graduating foresters at OSU:
- 1910-04-09 — Wells Fargo & Company Express April 9th, 1910
- 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
- 1916 — So your dad had just finished up college then.
- October 1928 — Yes, I remember the family going to visit him in the hospital, but he was unconscious and he wasn't expected to live. And it was in Dr. Anderson's hospital, when Dr. Anderson had his own hospital in Corvallis.
- 1930 — The Depression really hit and we traded the ranch (10 acres) for 160 acres in Benton County, about twelve miles from Corvallis.
- 1936 — Well, I don't know exactly what you want to know, but I have 1936 annual from Corvallis High School showing that Corvallis High School was way out in the country when I was in high school.
- 1938-12-20 — Corvallis published notice thereof in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, a daily newspaper of general circulation published in Benton County, Oregon, once a week for four successive weeks, which said notice required all persons having claims against said estate to present them with proper vouchers within six months from date of said notice, to-wit: December 20, 1938, to Executor at Corvallis, Oregon;
- 1939 — My husband Ralph and I moved from Corvallis to Wells to help mother with the farm after dad passed away and our two sons David and Melvin were born in 1939 and 1941 while we lived at Wells.
- 1939-10-14 — This matter coming on to be heard this 14th day of October, 1939, upon motion of
- 1941 — the entire listing of individuals from the 1941 Corvallis telephone book.
- 1944 — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1944. Camp Adair. Corvallis. OreQon: Training Aids General Layout.
- 1946 — Did you ever leave Corvallis once you came back in 1946?
- July of 1946 — We came down to Corvallis in July of 1946, and bought a 50 by 100 lot on 28th and Fillmore Street—way out on the edge of town.
- 1950s — We ran out of hay one year and my dad bought a big truckload of hay from Reese Mallow and later on he lived out there 8 miles south of Corvallis by where I moved in the late 1950's, but I didn't have too much to do with him.
- 1951-07 — No, Bob left Corvallis in 1950 for graduate study at Columbia, and finished in 1951 and joined U.S. Steel in July 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1957-05-22 — [The following photograph was published on the 12th page of The Corvallis Gazette Times on Wednesday, May 22, 1957.]
- 1957-06-26 — [This was published in The Corvallis Gazette Times, Corvallis, Oregon Wednesday, June 26, 1957.]
- 1962 — A SILVER CAKE PLATE was awarded by the Corvallis Gazette-Times -to Mrs. Ralph Rowie, "Benton's Best Cook of 1962" at the Bentori County Fair program last night.
- 1962 — This photograph of Velma Rawie was published in the Corvallis Gazette-Times in 1962.
- 1968 — He retired from St. Regis in 1968, and he and Mrs. Dunn returned to Corvallis to live.
- 1979-08-03 — Moore, Harriet. 1979 (August 3). Personal Interview with Royal Jackson. School of Forestry, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon. On file with the Homer Museum.
- 1980-06 — A report submitted to John Beuter, Director of School Forests, School of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. June 1980. 404 pp.
- 1990-06-11 — Bob Zybach Corvallis, Oregon June 11, 1990
- 1990-08-08 — Neil is pictured on August 8, 1990 at the home of Bob Zybach, Corvallis, Oregon.
- 1990-09-01 — Bob Zybach Corvallis, Oregon September 1, 1990
- April 9, 1991 — [From the April 9, 1991 Corvallis Gazette Times]
- 1991-05-13 — Kevin Sherer May 13, 1991 Corvallis, Oregon
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