Soap Creek Valley · Place

Wellsdale

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Wellsdale: 13 transcript mentions across 5 records, grouped by who was speaking.

railroad depot (former) Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: Welisdale

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 13

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: 44.69200, -123.20300
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

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 45
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 123, p. 126, p. 127, p. 128
Eugene Glender in #9 Eugene Glender p. 95
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner in #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner p. 7, p. 28, p. 82, p. 83
Velma Carter Rawie in #10 Velma Carter Rawie p. 41, p. 60, p. 81

In their words

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

Oh, no, I went to Wellsdale.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 28

[WILMA] Mostly, it seems like our end was pretty much Wellsdale.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner, #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner , p. 83

Dated statements about this place

1849 — The Wellsdale site, originally pioneered by Tolbert Carter by 1849, became part of Camp Adair in 1941. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1845–1859
1880s — The community was originally named "Wells Station" when it developed as a railroad town in the 1880's and became known as "Wellsdale" until it was purchased by the government at the outset of World War II. Zybach (Auto Tour) · source · 1860–1890

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