place

Olney, Oregon

1875 establishments in OregonCompany towns in OregonOregon geography stubsPopulated places established in 1875Unincorporated communities in Clatsop County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in OregonUse mdy dates from February 2018
Olney General Store
Olney General Store

Olney is an unincorporated community and former company town in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 202 approximately eight miles south of Astoria. Its post office is assigned ZIP code 97325. The town of Olney was named after Oregon Territory Supreme Court justice Cyrus Olney, who was from Astoria.There were several logging camps near Olney, many originally only accessible by boat up the Youngs River or by Albert S. Kerry's Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad. In 1910, the Western Cooperage Company camp was established in Olney. It was run by the Tidewater Timber Company from 1923 to 1943. Western Cooperage provided company housing for its workers and in 1915 the population was 50, which was near its maximum. Olney post office was established in 1875 and ran until 1950. Today, Olney still has a general store.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Olney, Oregon (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Olney, Oregon
Nehalem Highway,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Olney, OregonContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 46.100109 ° E -123.757637 °
placeShow on map

Address

Nehalem Highway

Nehalem Highway
97103
Oregon, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Olney General Store
Olney General Store
Share experience

Nearby Places

John Day River (northwestern Oregon)
John Day River (northwestern Oregon)

The John Day River is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 6 miles (10 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. The river rises in the Northern Oregon Coast Range in Clatsop County at 46.138889°N 123.704722°W / 46.138889; -123.704722 (John Day River source).Flowing generally north, the river enters the Columbia at John Day Point, east of Tongue Point and about 4 miles (7 km) east of Astoria. It passes under U.S. Route 30 near the unincorporated community of John Day (not to be confused with the city of the same name in Grant County). The mouth of the river is about 15 miles (24 km) upstream from the mouth of the Columbia on the Pacific. The John Day River has only one named tributary, Jack Creek, which enters from the left.The river is named for John Day, a hunter and fur trapper who took part in William Price Hunt's overland expedition for John Jacob Astor in 1811–12. There's a John Day River in eastern Oregon, a John Day Dam, a city John Day, and John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, which were all named after John Day. John Day Point, a cape located at the mouth of the river and protruding into Cathlamet Bay, takes its name from the river, as did a former railway station in the vicinity. Lewis and Clark, who camped near here in 1805, referred to the river as Kekemarke, their version of a Native American name. Lewis and Clark write about the river in their journals. The river was known as Swan Creek by Charles Wilkes, of the U.S. Exploring Expedition and was documented as such on his illustrated map.There's a railroad swing bridge crossing the mouth of the river. The tracks were used by Lewis and Clark Explorer Train which is no longer operating. The railroad bridge has a clearance of 8 feet.Tidal currents control the river throughout most of its length. Moored houseboats cover some of the shorelines on both sides of the river.

Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station
Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station

Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station, on the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1991. The listing included three contributing buildings and another contributing structure on a 4.5-acre (1.8 ha) area.The Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company dates from 1896. Founded in 1896 "by a group of gillnetters aiming to gain more control over market and working conditions", the company built a cannery and two stations, this one in Alderbrook and another in Uppertown. These stations served members, mostly Finns and Scandinavians, who lived in Alderbrook and Uppertown neighborhoods. "At these stations, the gillnetters could unload their catches at receiving stations at the pierhead, find secure moorage close to their homes, and have ready access to storage and repair facilities."Only the 1903 Alderbrook station survives intact. The three-story, 60-by-100-foot (18 m × 30 m) fishing boat and net storage shed, standing on pilings in the river, is the largest of the station's surviving buildings. It has a two-story boat lift at its northwest corner, but the lift was in "poor condition" at the time of the property's nomination to the NRHP. Other structures still in place are a machine shop, a small cabin and the largest of the several wooden piers that connected the parts of the facility. Although only a few pilings remain of the complex's fish receiving station, the property remains as "a generally complete and [the] only remaining facility of the cooperative enterprise which figured importantly in Astoria's legendary packing industry, for many years the basis of local economy. The Co-op was a vital force through the peak period of salmon fishing on the lower Columbia, which had ended by 1930, but it continued active long enough to observe a 50th anniversary in 1946 and beyond."Among the coop's other buildings was a "storage warehouse and receiving station" built on pilings in the river at 31st Street: 8:5  (in Uppertown), which survives but was heavily damaged in a 2007 storm.