Soap Creek Valley · Place

Halsey

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Halsey: 4 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 4

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: 44.38401, -123.10981
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

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 1, p. 5
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 3
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 78

In their words

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

A Russian man, by the name of Mike Dobrinin, and there were quite a few Dobrinins in the Peoria/Halsey area.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 3

Note the pre-Worid War I Halsey Street trolley tracks in this photo.

Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel, #12 Wanda Marcks Cook , p. 78

Dated statements about this place

1910 — 24. John W. Cook Portland home, c. 1910. The Cook house is second from the left. Note the pre-Worid War I Halsey Street trolley tracks in this photo. Photograph by Ernest Cook. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
c. 1925 — It burned down years later. A Russian man, by the name of Mike Dobrinin, and there were quite a few Dobrinins in the Peoria/Halsey area. John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940

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: Halsey (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Halsey. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/halsey/
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