Soap Creek Valley · Place

Crescent Valley

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Crescent Valley: 9 transcript mentions across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 8
Transcript mentions: 9

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: 44.62623, -123.26232
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

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 2, p. 7, p. 17, p. 18, p. 81, p. 82, p. 94, p. 99, p. 105

In their words

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

[Lloyd] Anderson place [Highland at Crescent Valley Dr.].

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 2

Dated statements about this place

1900 — She moved with her family in 1900 to the Crescent Valley area near Corvallis, where she grew up on a farm. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1912 — Yes, my father's house, which was built in two parts -- one in 1912 and the other a little later -- is still standing on the L. [Lloyd] Anderson place [Highland at Crescent Valley Dr.]. I lived there until 1922. Bessie Murphy · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

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

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