Soap Creek Valley · Place

Highland Road

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Highland Road: 9 transcript mentions across 2 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Highland Way

Index references (printed indexes): 0
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: 44.60389, -123.26224
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
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. 16, p. 20, p. 21, p. 33, p. 41, p. 71, p. 76, p. 85
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 53

In their words

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

We went clear through to 10th Street which is Highland Way and then in an L shape up on the hill to where the Lutheran cemetery is.

Velma Carter Rawie, #10 Velma Carter Rawie , p. 53

And that went along the fence from the corner of my father's place on Highland Way but before Highland Way got put in, we went down to the highway, the line of Mr.

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 19

Dated statements about this place

1850 — [PHIL] That's going back to 1850's. Well Highland Road wasn't there then. Hilltop Road was about in there in 1853. [PHIL] But it wasn't a road, per Se. Not in our sense, no. Bob Zybach / Phil Hays · source · 1845–1859

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