[or-roots] Fw: Watkins/Copper Oregon

[Nancy Lee Adams]

Jim - 
Found 2 towns of Copper & it does say the one I was talking about is submerged by the Applegate Dam.                Nancy

Copper, Oregon
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Copper, Oregon may refer to:

  a.. Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged ghost town flooded by the Applegate Dam 
  b.. Copper, Wallowa County, Oregon, a ghost town on the Oregon-Idaho border now part of Hells Canyon National Park 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Nancy Lee Adams 
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Watkins/Copper Oregon


Hi Jim - 

I just got home from vacation last night & I'm catching up on reading my mail now. There was a town of Copper up at the Applegate area & when they put the dam in I think the back waters covered up the town of Copper or else it's on the edge of the man made lake now. Was an old mining community. I don't know if this is your Copper but thought I would tell you. It's in Jackson Co., OR. I have been there many years ago before & after the dam as I used to live in Rogue River, OR. & just got back from there visiting our family farm.

Nancy

-------Original Message-------

From: Jim Cook
Date: 6/19/2009 12:32:24 PM
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Subject: [or-roots] Watkins/Copper Oregon

I have an obituary from 1970 that lists this person's birth place as
"Watkins, Ore., which is now known as Copper."  I can't find either name on
my "DeLorme Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer."

Has the name changed again or is it a ghost town?

Jim


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