Soap Creek Valley · Place

Seattle

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

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

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 4

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: 47.60383, -122.33006
How they were found: coordinate from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; 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

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 85
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 2
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 139
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 80

In their words

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

Another time we went up to Washington, close to the Seattle area.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 85

Esther Myra, born 14 June 1906, Seattle, WA; married Douglass Grandy, 1 September 1927.

Neil Elton Vanderburg, #8 Neil Vanderburg , p. 139

Dated statements about this place

1905 — In 1905, my father’s family moved to Seattle and my grandfather worked for his father-in-law in a sawmill where downtown Seattle is now. Marvin Rowley · source · 1891–1920
1906 — Esther Myra, born 14 June 1906, Seattle, WA; married Douglass Grandy, 1 September 1927. Mary Vanderburg Stone · source · 1891–1920
1906 — His family moved to Seattle, and then to Portland about 1906. Marvin Rowley · source · 1891–1920

How to cite this item

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