Soap Creek Valley · Place

Savage Creek

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Savage Creek: 24 transcript mentions across 6 records, grouped by who was speaking.

creek Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: Savage Creek (Benton Co.) · Savage [Benton Co.]

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 24

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: 44.71568, -123.30177
How they were found: coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
How far to trust it: inferred
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. 132, p. 137
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 19, p. 21, p. 24, p. 26, p. 33, p. 40
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 1
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 6, p. 24
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 7
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 15, p. 49, p. 50, p. 80, p. 87, p. 91, p. 94, p. 95, p. 115, p. 117, p. 125, p. 126

In their words

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

Well there was a flume came down into Savage Creek there up around the corner from the mill that was still there when I got there.

Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey, #3 Donald Dickey , p. 21

Dated statements about this place

1846 — the Mennonites had renamed Savage Creekname for 1846 Applegate Trail Pioneer, Morgan Savageto the "South Fork" of Berry Creek because it sounded more "civilized." Zybach (editorial) · source · 1845–1859

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

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