Soap Creek Valley · Place

Multnomah County Poor Farm

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Multnomah County Poor Farm: 2 transcript mentions across 1 record, grouped by who was speaking.

institution 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

Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 5, p. 6

In their words

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

When I graduated from high school in 1942, the very first job I had was working on the Multnomah County Poor Farm, milking cows.

Marvin Rowley, #15 Marvin Rowley , p. 5

Dairy cows and cow barns at the Multnomah County Poor Farm in the early 1940s.

Marvin Rowley, #15 Marvin Rowley , p. 5

Dated statements about this place

1940s — Dairy cows and cow barns at the Multnomah County Poor Farm in the early 1940s. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1940s — Aerial view of the Multnomah County Poor Farm (now McMenamins Edgefield) in the early 1940s. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1942 — When I graduated from high school in 1942, the very first job I had was working on the Multnomah County Poor Farm, milking cows. Marvin Rowley · source · 1941–1950

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Multnomah County Poor Farm (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Multnomah County Poor Farm. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/multnomah-county-poor-farm/
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