[or-roots] Logging Camp locations

[Glen Jones]

A lot of the Old Logging camps were also know by the name of the owner of the logging 

company as well as the Camp Five or ?? Etc. 
Glen Jones Portland 



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From: "Leslie Chapman" <opera_70 at yahoo.com> 
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:02:33 AM 
Subject: [or-roots] Logging Camp locations 

Dale asked about finding a logging camp location for which  the  name is not known. I hate to be discouraging, but even with the name finding the location is problematic.  


As an example here is a picture of at least one of my Melvin cousins working at a logging camp "somewhere" in Oregon. 
http://s1118.photobucket.com/albums/k617/Mashtali/Photos%20from%20Caddie/?action=view&current=Congerprvdd020.jpg   


Now as near as I can reconstruct from probable time frame of this photo  it is most likely near Reedsport, but it may be near Tillamook or somewhere in the Coast Range west of Oregon City or out of Coos Bay or Coquille. All places we know the family members worked in the woods. 


I have in the course of my research found references to them at a place called "camp five" and some other names. Unfortunately that name is only slightly more useful than having a PO box number to go one with no town name attached. Probably every major logging operation in the state between 1860 or so and 1950 had at least one "camp five."  As you go north out of Gardiner here you pass Sparrow Park Rd, locals inform that it should be Three Mile, as it was the road to Three mile logging camp, about a mile up the road is Five Mile road. There are a lot of "fill in the distance here" mile creeks in Oregon most of which are related to their distance from some settlement, but you will also find at one time or another an awful lot of those creeks had logging camps on them with the same name and if all you have is "five mile camp" you're just as bad off as I am with my "camp five."  Finding that needle in the haystack is about as easy as finding where "the sawmill" was. In most of Oregon you can just about hit a golf ball in any direction with a good driver and it will land in or fly over an old mill site. 


If you have them in a Census at the time they were in the Logging camp you might get a clue at least to the general area. About the only other way would be if there was a letter from or to them at the time. 


Les C 



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 I have been trying to find out for years if there was ever a large logging camp near Portland in the 1917 to 1919 time frame.  My grandmother was a cook in a logging camp at that time and that is where she met my grandfather who was also a cook in the same logging camp.  I have a photo of some of the loggers standing in the camp near a building but can't identify it.  It is one of those old wide, about 12 inches wide by about 3-1/2 inches tall.  I have several of those old photos from the time frame of about 1910 to 1920. 
I sure would like to know the name of the logging camp and if there is any information about it. 
Dale in California 
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