Soap Creek Valley · Place

Soap Creek Schoolhouse

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Soap Creek Schoolhouse: 20 transcript mentions across 4 records, grouped by who was speaking.

building Auto Tour stop 8 Tour map key ETour map key P Coordinate: verified

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 20

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 from OpenStreetMap Nominatim; name match verified
How far to trust it: verified
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

Auto Tour, 1989 written by Bob Zybach — Auto Tour, 1989 p. 20, p. 23, p. 26, p. 31
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 80, p. 81, p. 82, p. 83, p. 84, p. 85
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 38, p. 39
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

In their words

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

Sam Moore's father, James, donated the land upon which the Soap Creek Schoolhouse is located.

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 20

Glender Brothers 1904 [courtesy of Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation]

Auto Tour, 1989 , p. 4

Dated statements about this place

1899 — Photograph of Soak Creek Schoolhouse and local families c. 1899 courtesy of Myra Moore Lauridson and the Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1899/1930 — Soap Creek Schoolhouse." Names shown with house locations are for families that lived in the Soap Creek area between 1899 and 1930. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1891–1920
1900 — Talking about sheep, on that picture that you have [Soap Creek Schoolhouse student picture, e. 1900), is a guy by the name of Dell Baker. Charlie Olson · source · 1891–1920
1928 — [Lumber was shipped from the mill near the Soap Creek Schoolhouse in 1928 by Model T trucks. After running through the planing mill in Wells, it was shipped by rail. JR] John Jacob "Jake" Rohner · source · 1921–1940
1985 — The following summary of the history of Wells, Oregon was written in longhand by Velma Rawie for Loma Grabe of the Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation, c. 1985. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1971–1995
1990 — Bottom Left. Lorna Grabe (Grabe 1990) stands in front of Soap Creek Schoolhouse in period dress, April, 1991. Photograph by author. Zybach (thesis) · source · 1971–1995
1991-04 — Top Right. Bessie Gragg Murphy (Murphy 1995) and friend view catsears and other wildflowers on grounds of Soap Creek Schoolhouse (see Map 2 and Table 2) in April, 1991. Zybach (thesis) · source · 1971–1995

How to cite this item

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