Vaughn, Oregon
Vaughn is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.[1] It is located about a four miles south of Noti in the foothills of the Central Oregon Coast Range near Noti Creek.[2] Author Ralph Friedman described Vaughn as "a mill in the meadows".[3]
History
Vaughn was established in the 1920s by the Snellstrom Brothers Lumber Company.[4] The company town was later owned by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, then sold to International Paper (IP) in the mid-1950s.[4] Vaughn is near the route of the now-closed Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad Coos Bay Line (formerly a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad).[5] On a 1930 map the community is shown on the property of Roland Vaughn.[5] Because the railroad makes a horseshoe bend and misses the community, the railroad's Vaughn Station is about a mile west of there.[1][5]
Today Vaughn is the site of a Rosboro Lumber Company laminated beam plant that was purchased from Weyerhaeuser in 2005.[6][7] The beam plant was built by Bohemia, Inc. in 1988.[8][9] Bohemia also ran a plywood plant at Vaughn, which it had purchased from International Paper in 1982 after IP closed it; Bohemia reopened the mill in 1983.[8][10][11][12] The plywood plant was closed temporarily in 1985 after a section of the roof collapsed.[13]
References
- ^ a b "Vaughn". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1136864. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
- ^ Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. p. 215. ISBN 0-87004-332-3. http://books.google.com/books.
- ^ a b Carlson, Linda (2003). Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 239. ISBN 0-295-98332-9. http://www.lindacarlson.com/historybook.html.
- ^ a b c McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [First published 1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 990. ISBN 9780875952772. OCLC 53075956.
- ^ Miller, Wayne. "Rosboro Plans To Double BigBeam Production". Miller Wood Trade Publications. http://www.millerpublishing.com/FullFeatureStory.asp?ID=173&Publication=3. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ "Rosboro: Committed to Your Business". Rosboro Lumber Company. http://www.rosboro.com/pdfs/rosboroAllProducts.pdf. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ a b Associated Press (December 5, 1990). "Bohemia to sell its Calif. Mills; Oregon Plants Also Considered". The Bulletin. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ElYPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mIYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5790,3472731&dq=bohemia+vaughn+plywood&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ United Press International (October 7, 1987). "Beam Plant Planned". The Bulletin. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FE5TAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_4YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3931,1744944&dq=bohemia+vaughn+plywood&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Bacon, Larry (November 25, 1987). "Bohemia Considers Purchasing Sawmill". The Register-Guard. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UuhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=euEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6806,5913601&dq=bohemia+vaughn+plywood&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Wyant, Dan (September 20, 1988). "Bohemia Starts Up New Facility for Producing Laminated Beams". The Register-Guard. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kOdVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r-EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5434,4881341&dq=bohemia+vaughn+plywood&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Bishop, Bill (September 14, 1983). "Mills to Close Permanently". The Register-Guard. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pflVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PeIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4966,3439803&dq=bohemia+vaughn+plywood&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ "55 Employees Return to Bohemia Plant Jobs". The Register-Guard. April 27, 1985. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-6xVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6375,6742180&dq=bohemia+vaughn+plywood&hl=en. Retrieved 2011-06-12.