[or-roots] Logging Camp locations

[Marsha BradleyLuthy]

Les there was a road from Oregon city to the Dales and they marked it one
mile, two mile etc.  My ggrandfather was born at 5 mile.
If you go two that road on the Forest Service Maps you might find the road
you might find what your looking for I found it at
the office in Salem would be willing to help with that if you need it .
Great picture by the way.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Leslie Chapman <opera_70 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> >
>  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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