User:Tedder/mainstreet

What is this?
These are from Bailey's "Main Street: Northeastern Oregon" book and need to be integrated onto the pages about the places. If a weird name is listed, it's probably a small city, like Alicel, Oregon. The leading number is the page number the information is from. If a random number is listed, it's probably the date the city was founded.

Also from "The roles of the railroad in the development of the Grande Ronde Valley".

Factoids

 * 22 Tipton, Oregon REDLINK 1904 as logging town
 * 28 Booms/spurts due to (portable) logging operations. Palmer, Baker County, Oregon REDLINK (1920), Big Creek, Oregon REDLINK (1930) (no settlement, not worth an entry). Dates are boom times, not foundings.
 * 30 Evans, Oregon REDLINK 1910
 * 58 Middletown, Oregon 1891 REDLINK "halfway between La Grande and Island City" "first suburban development in NE OR" now mobile home park (as of 1980s) Note: Doesn't exist as a placename in GNIS. Valfontis (talk) 02:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * 54 Pine, Oregon REDLINK post office 1878, never platted, never developed into a real town
 * 54 Carson, Oregon 1900 small (12 blocks), lost out to Langrell, Oregon (even smaller, only 2 blocks!, but still alive)
 * 50-51 Evans, Oregon REDLINK "platted in the heart of the Wallowa Valley, suffered from proximity to Lostine in one of the rare cases where the established road town retained its dominance over a new railroad town."
 * 51 Tipton, Oregon REDLINK established as logging town, along Sumpter Valley Railroad

For Katr

 * North Powder, Oregon - have more on the icehouse/Pacific Fruit Express thing?
 * Halfway, Oregon - section needs tightening, both my line and the rest that is there.

List of completed

 * Bourne, Oregon
 * Carson, Oregon
 * New Bridge, Oregon
 * Nibley, Oregon
 * Orodell, Oregon
 * Robinette, Oregon
 * Sparta, Oregon
 * Starkey, Oregon
 * Telocaset, Oregon

Notes for tedder

 * Ruckles Creek [sic] in Baker Co. & Ruckel Creek in HR Co. both named for Colonel J. S. Ruckel (note correct spelling) an original incorporator of Oregon Steam Navigation Company/Oregon Portage Railway (OGN p. 830). "Ruckel Road" (originally a stage line founded by George F. Thomas and J. S. Ruckel) mentioned in conjunction with Thomas Creek in Umatilla Co.--Ruckel Ridge and Ruckel Spring also in the vicinity. (OGN p. 948) Prob. need article on the man, then redir all namesakes to his article.
 * ✅, at least as much as I could. -tedder


 * No settlement, locale or p.o. named Big Creek, Oregon according to USGS--several creeks are so-named. What is it near? (which county?)
 * Portable logging settlement, was probably never actually a town. Somewhere in the NE, not worth an entry probably. -tedder


 * Have you got anything on Hilgard, Oregon?
 * Nothin'. I gave everything that was in the Main Street book (and returned it). -tedder


 * More on Robinette], RR, etc.
 * ✅ -tedder