Soap Creek Valley · Place

Hilltop Road

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Hilltop Road: 2 transcript mentions across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

road No coordinate

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 2

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.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

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. 76, p. 77

In their words

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

Hilltop Road was about in there in 1853.

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 74

Okay, what I was trying to explain is the 1853 maps show Hilltop Road where Highland Way is now.

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 74

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
1853 — 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
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 Bob Zybach / Phil Hays · source · 1845–1859
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 Bob Zybach / Phil Hays · source · 1845–1859

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