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Dorena
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| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Lane |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 97434 |
| Area code(s) | 458 and 541 |
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Dorena is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located southeast of Cottage Grove on the Row River, a tributary of the Coast Fork Willamette River.
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The first settlers arrived in the Dorena area in the 1850s and depended on agriculture to survive, but later logging and gold mining became the mainstays of the local economy.[1] Dorena was named by combining the first names of Dora Burnette and Rena Martin.[2] Dorena school was built in 1896,[3] and Dorena post office was established in 1899.[2] In 1946, the town was abandoned when the Corps of Engineers began construction of Dorena Dam on the Row River for flood control.[2][3] The Corps relocated approximately one hundred homes from the town's former site at .[4] The dam was completed in 1949 and created Dorena Reservoir, which flooded the townsite.[2] The community was moved five miles upriver.[2]
The Row River Trail, a rails to trails conversion of a former Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway line, passes through Dorena.[5]