Soap Creek Valley · Place
Portland
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Portland: 103 transcript mentions across 16 records, grouped by who was speaking.
town
Coordinate: derived — matched by name against a public place-name list
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 10
- Transcript mentions
- 103
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Provenance
- Coordinates
- 45.52345, -122.67621
- 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
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Who speaks of it
- Bessie Murphy p. 41, p. 49, p. 51, p. 52, p. 63, p. 105
- Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 1
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 57, p. 81, p. 92, p. 101, p. 105, p. 107, p. 108, p. 109, p. 110, p. 115, p. 117, p. 138, p. 140, p. 168, p. 169, p. 170
- Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey p. 25, p. 39, p. 55
- Edward Sekermestrovich p. 14, p. 34
- Eugene Glender p. 44, p. 100, p. 102, p. 106, p. 109
- James Hanish p. 3, p. 4
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 25, p. 33, p. 85
- Lorna Grabe p. 5
- Marvin Rowley p. 1, p. 2, p. 3, p. 9, p. 34, p. 35, p. 44, p. 59, p. 108, p. 119
- Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 104, p. 139
- Paul M. Dunn p. 14, p. 17, p. 18, p. 35
- Velma Carter Rawie p. 21, p. 32, p. 81, p. 109, p. 110
- Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 1, p. 8, p. 10, p. 12, p. 17, p. 27, p. 28, p. 30, p. 62, p. 68, p. 72, p. 76, p. 78, p. 82, p. 83
- William A. Davies p. 4, p. 16, p. 67
- Zybach 1999 thesis p. 14, p. 28, p. 41, p. 51, p. 60, p. 77, p. 86, p. 125, p. 143, p. 211, p. 213, p. 214, p. 215, p. 216, p. 218, p. 219, p. 221, p. 222, p. 223, p. 224, p. 226, p. 227, p. 228, p. 229, p. 231
In their words
No, Ted and Tim both live in Portland, and Annie lives in Lyon, France.
See, like Ted works as a builder in Portland and he said that the communities there ...
Dated statements about this place
- 1851 — I've got maps of Portland from 1851 where there was forest fires within our city limits now.
- 1864 — de Ruchie, as he was known, was born 1 August 1864 in Portland, Maine.
- 1905 — It might have been when we came to the fair, Lewis and Clark Fair in 1905.
- 1905 — I think they came out just shortly after the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland around 1905 to 1907.
- 1906 — His family moved to Seattle, and then to Portland about 1906.
- 1910 — 24. John W. Cook Portland home, c. 1910. The Cook house is second from the left. Note the pre-Worid War I Halsey Street trolley tracks in this photo. Photograph by Ernest Cook.
- 1911-10-24 — and seals this 24th day of October, 1911.
- 1912 — The following interview was recorded on October 28, 1989 at Wanda Cook's apartment in Portland, Oregon. At that time I wrote: "She is an attractive, articulate, and intelligent woman with an inquisitive mind and an ever-present sense of humor. Due to the nature of this project, the interview was principally concerned with her childhood and young adult years in the
- 1922/1923 — He worked for Pacific Power and Light, only it was Northwestern Electric initially in 1922, or 1923 I think it was started up.
- 1922 — A resident of the Portland
- 1925 — 25-26. Wanda Cook Portland home, c. 1925. Photographs by Ernest Cook. Wanda raised her two sons in this Portland home, as a single mother during the Depression. The house is located on 43rd and Knight Streets and is believed to be still in ise.
- 1928 — Homer, John B. 1928. Hunting Elephants in Oregon. In: Days and Deeds in the Oregon Country, pp. 9-14. J.K. Gill Company, Portland, Oregon.
- 1930s — The meeting in Portland was an annual meeting of this society in the mid-1930's.
- 1931 — This illustration appeared as the frontspiece to John B. Homer's 1931 text book, Oregon History and Early Literature, published by the J. K. Gill Company, Portland, Oregon.
- 1952 — In 1952 she married Harry Murphy in Portland; he preceded her death.
- 1989-10-28 — The following interview was conducted by Bob Zybach with Wanda Marcks Cook at her home in Portland, Oregon on October 28, 1989.
- 1989-10-28 — The following interview was recorded on October 28, 1989 at Wanda Cook's apartment in Portland, Oregon.
- 1990 — The following article appeared in the Rose Center for Seniors newsletter, probably in early 1990.
- 1991-08-21 — Wanda Marcks Cook died on August 21, 1991.
- 1999 — In most instances, master copies of monographs were stored at Research Forests offices, original tape recordings were sent to the Oral History Department of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, and original maps, correspondence, photographs, photograph copies, and copies of tape recordings were sent to OSU Archives in Corvallis, Oregon.
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