Soap Creek Valley · Place

Lebanon

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Lebanon: 8 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Lebanon, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 8

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: 44.53651, -122.90703
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. 3, p. 105
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 22, p. 33, p. 139
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 30
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 8, p. 39

In their words

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

One lives east of Lebanon and the other's at Oakridge.

Bessie Murphy, #11 Bessie Murphy , p. 3

He lived over in Lebanon for a number of years.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 22

Dated statements about this place

1899 — Dorothy Louise, born 25 December 1899, New Denver, British Columbia; married Elton Don Vanderburg 1 May 1918, Fullerton CA; died 28 February 1966, Lebanon, OR. Mary Vanderburg Stone · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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

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