User:Tedder/mainstreet

What is this?

These are from Bailey's "Main Street: Northeastern Oregon" book and need to be integrated onto the pages about the places. If a weird name is listed, it's probably a small city, like Alicel, Oregon. The leading number is the page number the information is from. If a random number is listed, it's probably the date the city was founded.

Also from "The roles of the railroad in the development of the Grande Ronde Valley".

Pastable ref

<ref name="main">{{cite book|last=Bailey|first=Barbara Ruth|title=Main Street: Northeastern Oregon|publisher=[[Oregon Historical Society]]|date=1982|isbn=0875950736|page=TODO}}</ref>

<ref name="rr">{{cite book|last=Deumling|first=Dietrich|title=The roles of the railroad in the development of the Grande Ronde Valley (masters thesis)|publisher=[[Northern Arizona University]]|location=[[Flagstaff, Arizona]]|date=1972-05|oclc=4383986|accessdate=2010-01-16|pages=TODO}}</ref>

Factoids

• 22 Tipton, Oregon REDLINK 1904 as logging town
• 28 Booms/spurts due to (portable) logging operations. Palmer, Baker County, Oregon REDLINK (1920), Big Creek, Oregon REDLINK (1930) (no settlement, not worth an entry). Dates are boom times, not foundings.
• 30 Evans, Oregon REDLINK 1910
• 58 Middletown, Oregon 1891 REDLINK "halfway between La Grande and Island City" "first suburban development in NE OR" now mobile home park (as of 1980s) Note: Doesn't exist as a placename in GNIS. Valfontis (talk) 02:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
• 54 Pine, Oregon REDLINK post office 1878, never platted, never developed into a real town
• 54 Carson, Oregon 1900 small (12 blocks), lost out to Langrell, Oregon (even smaller, only 2 blocks!, but still alive)
• 50-51 Evans, Oregon REDLINK "platted in the heart of the Wallowa Valley, suffered from proximity to Lostine in one of the rare cases where the established road town retained its dominance over a new railroad town."
• 51 Tipton, Oregon REDLINK established as logging town, along Sumpter Valley Railroad

For Katr

• North Powder, Oregon#History - have more on the icehouse/Pacific Fruit Express thing?
• Halfway, Oregon#History - section needs tightening, both my line and the rest that is there.

List of completed

• Bourne, Oregon
• Carson, Oregon
• New Bridge, Oregon
• Nibley, Oregon
• Orodell, Oregon
• Robinette, Oregon
• Sparta, Oregon
• Starkey, Oregon
• Telocaset, Oregon

Notes for tedder

• Ruckles Creek [sic] in Baker Co. & Ruckel Creek in HR Co. both named for Colonel J. S. Ruckel (note correct spelling) an original incorporator of Oregon Steam Navigation Company/Oregon Portage Railway (OGN p. 830). "Ruckel Road" (originally a stage line founded by George F. Thomas and J. S. Ruckel) mentioned in conjunction with Thomas Creek in Umatilla Co.--Ruckel Ridge and Ruckel Spring also in the vicinity. (OGN p. 948) Prob. need article on the man, then redir all namesakes to his article.

 Done, at least as much as I could. -tedder

• No settlement, locale or p.o. named Big Creek, Oregon according to USGS--several creeks are so-named. What is it near? (which county?)

Portable logging settlement, was probably never actually a town. Somewhere in the NE, not worth an entry probably. -tedder

• Have you got anything on Hilgard, Oregon?

Nothin'. I gave everything that was in the Main Street book (and returned it). -tedder

• More on Robinette], RR, etc.

 Done -tedder