Hopewell, Oregon
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Hopewell is an unincorporated community in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the eastern terminus of Oregon Route 153, ten miles south of Dayton and a few miles west of Wheatland, at the east base of the Eola Hills.
Hopewell post office was established in 1897, and closed out to Amity in 1903.[1] The name Hopewell does not appear in the gazetteers of the 1880s.[1]
Hopewell was the home of George K. Gay,[2] who voted in the May 1843 Champoeg Meeting that created the provisional government, and built the first brick residence in the state of Oregon near Hopewell in 1842.[2] Gay's great-grandson, singer Johnnie Ray, spent his early years in Hopewell.
[edit] References
- ^ a b McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur [1928] (2003). Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition, Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
- ^ a b George Gay House near Hopewell. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
[edit] External links
- Historic image of Evangelical United Brethren Church near Hopewell from Salem Public Library
- Hopewell, Oregon is at coordinates Coordinates:
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