Soap Creek Valley · Place

Salem

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Salem: 44 transcript mentions across 14 records, grouped by who was speaking.

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

Also printed as: SALEM · Salem, Oregon

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 44

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: 44.94290, -123.03510
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. 49
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 35, p. 48
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 36, p. 88
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 2, p. 5, p. 17, p. 20, p. 29
Edward Sekermestrovich in #4 Edward Sekermestrovich p. 7, p. 9, p. 20
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 99, p. 102
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 17, p. 21, p. 25, p. 26, p. 70
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 58, p. 90, p. 94
Lorna Grabe in #1 Lorna Grabe p. 39
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 34, p. 76, p. 77, p. 116
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 4, p. 6, p. 7, p. 103, p. 104, p. 110
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 26, p. 51
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 55, p. 57
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 82, p. 217, p. 222, p. 225, p. 226, p. 230

In their words

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

Well, if you were too far away, like we were at the Capitol building in Salem, we would eat at the Forest Service headquarters, across from the State Penitentiary.

Edward Sekermestrovich, #4 Edward Sekermestrovich , p. 20

"someone phoned Mona," that's Mona Luebbert, "and requested to move the school house to the Salem State Fairgrounds for a Bicentennial Project.

Lorna Grabe, #1 Lorna Grabe , p. 39

Dated statements about this place

1855/1856 — In 1855 or 1856 a miner from the gold fields of California stopped at a Corvallis saloon to fortify himself for the remainder of the journey to Salem, where he was to visit his sweetheart. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1845–1859
1893 — And they moved out in 1893 to Salem. Donald M. Dickey · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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