Soap Creek Valley · Place

Soap Creek School

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Soap Creek School: 22 transcript mentions across 5 records, grouped by who was speaking.

school Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: SOAP CREEK SCHOOL · Soap Creek School (School #32)

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 22

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: 44.66035, -123.27967
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

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 47
Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 3, p. 24, p. 26, p. 36, p. 40
Lorna Grabe in #1 Lorna Grabe p. 15, p. 20, p. 38
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 8, p. 9, p. 38, p. 85
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 9, p. 37, p. 41, p. 109, p. 123, p. 126, p. 143, p. 187, p. 197

In their words

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

Lottie Blake brought in to teach at what I am lead to believe was the second location of Soap Creek school.

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes, #14 Charles and Norman Hindes , p. viii

Is it the Soap Creek School House Foundation?

Lorna Grabe, #1 Lorna Grabe , p. 15

Dated statements about this place

1847 — The Soap Creek School District is reputed to be the oldest in Benton County, with some authorities placing its beginning in a log structure erected during the fall of 1847. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859
1899 — maybe the picture I've got in the book that shows a school built in 1899 might have been right here? Bob Zybach · source · 1891–1920
1902 — Olson, in fact, is shown in a c.1902 Soap Creek School photograph in which he could still identify most of the other 20 students and adults (including his “7-foot tall” school teacher, Mrs. de Moulin) nearly 90 years later, in 1990 (Olson 1994). Zybach (thesis) · source · 1891–1920
1932 — there was the Soap Creek School down there that was built in 1932 Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940
1932 — The one that's there now wasn't built until 1932, it replaced an older school. Bob Zybach · source · 1921–1940

How to cite this item

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