Soap Creek Valley · Place

Lincoln

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Lincoln: 7 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: Lincoln County

Index references (printed indexes): 1
Transcript mentions: 7

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: 44.64584, -123.90766
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

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 6, p. 97
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 14, p. 72, p. 151
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 108
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 13

In their words

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

The second interview with Charlie Olson took place in his home, near Summit in Lincoln County, Oregon on June 16, 1990.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 97

Lincoln was the first one that they killed.

Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson, #7 Charlie Olson , p. 103

Dated statements about this place

1872 — This former portrait of Tolbert Carter may have been taken as early as 1872, when he was first elected to the Oregon State Legislature as the Benton County Representative, or as recent as 1895, when he was serving a 4-year term as the Joint Senator of both Lincoln and Benton Counties. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1860–1890

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

More on citing this collection: How to cite the Zybach Collection.

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