Nelson, Oregon

Nelson is a ghost town in Baker County, Oregon, United States.^[1] Nelson is located 1 mile west of Huntington, Oregon and 9 miles east of La Grande. There were deposits of limestone in Nelson, previously there was a cement factory located in Lime, Oregon that produced over 1,200,000 barrels a year. A new limestone plant was built in Nelson in 1979 and the plant at Lime closed the following year. There was a cement plant at Nelson but closed in the late 1980s and was left abandoned. Nelson is located on the Union Pacific Railroad mainline's Huntington Subdivision. The subdivision was originally owned by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. The tracks were built here from 1882 to 1884. The Huntington Subdivision mainline goes right under the abandoned cement mill plant over a small walkway. A post office existed here from 1901 to 1940.

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Coordinates: 44°32′23″N 117°25′08″W / 44.53972°N 117.41889°W / 44.53972; -117.41889