Soap Creek Valley · Place
Wells
Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Wells: 52 transcript mentions across 9 records, grouped by who was speaking.
town (former)
Coordinate: inferred
- Index references (printed indexes)
- 0
- Transcript mentions
- 52
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Provenance
- Coordinates
- 44.69200, -123.20300
- How they were found
- coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
- How far to trust it
- inferred
- Home site of
- Velma Carter Rawie
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Home site
On Map 9 of the 1999 thesis this is plotted as the home site of Velma Carter Rawie .
Who speaks of it
- Bessie Murphy p. 48, p. 88
- Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 3, p. 45
- Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson p. 123
- Eugene Glender p. 52, p. 95
- James Hanish p. 57
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner p. 3, p. 4, p. 7, p. 19, p. 25, p. 60, p. 82, p. 100, p. 102, p. 108
- Velma Carter Rawie p. 3, p. 4, p. 8, p. 10, p. 12, p. 13, p. 14, p. 17, p. 21, p. 24, p. 26, p. 30, p. 34, p. 46, p. 48, p. 52, p. 55, p. 56, p. 64, p. 66, p. 68, p. 73, p. 77, p. 81, p. 82, p. 84, p. 115
- Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel p. 9, p. 12, p. 23, p. 61
- Zybach 1999 thesis p. 143, p. 223, p. 230
In their words
Evonne was from the Suver community which was just north of Wells about five miles on the railroad track to Suver, so as I say, she's the one that has kept it going but it is.
A note on the manuscript states that 'Wells was an early town located where the [E.
Dated statements about this place
- 1800s — This railroad car, and others like it, was used as to bring "Revival Meetings" to Wells and to other communities with railroad service in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
- 1870s — The farm you were living on was settled by a Black lady [Lettia Carson] and there was also near Wells, a Black man [Lew Sozahworth] that lived there in the 1870's a couple of the very few Blacks in the Pacific Northwest.
- 1881 — Copy of an 1881 bifi of sale to James Gingles for a piano to be delivered to the Wells Store.
- 1900 — North Palestine Church, Wells, Oregon (n.d.; probably 1900-1930).
- 1910-04-09 — Wells Fargo & Company Express April 9th, 1910
- 1920 — This photograph of a Wells community picnic took place at Sulphur Springs, probably on the 4th of July in 1920.
- 1920s — This photograph of Wells School's students and teachers in the early 1920s was provided by Wilma Rohner.
- 1921 — Velma Carter and Bessie Price, walking to Wells school along the Red Electric railroad tracks, c.1921.
- 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]
- 1930 — The Wells Oregon Electric Substation, c. 1930 (often called "Wells Station't).
- 1939 — My husband Ralph and I moved from Corvallis to Wells to help mother with the farm after dad passed away and our two sons David and Melvin were born in 1939 and 1941 while we lived at Wells.
- 1941 — [JAKE] They lived almost in Wells, had a farm there. Yeah, they did own it didn't they? So when Camp Adair came along and bought them out they moved to La Grande.
- 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.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Wells (place record).
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- Soap Creek Valley: Wells. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/wells/
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