Vaughn, Oregon

Sawmill and mill pond of the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Vaughn, Oregon, in August 1947.

Vaughn is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.^[1] It is located about 4 miles (6.4 km) 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 Coos Bay Rail Link (formerly the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad Coos Bay Line, once 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.^[6][5]

Today Vaughn is the site of a Rosboro Lumber Company laminated beam plant that was purchased from Weyerhaeuser in 2005.^[7][8] The beam plant was built by Bohemia, Inc. in 1988.^[9][10] 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.^{[9][11][12][13]} The plywood plant was closed temporarily in 1985 after a section of the roof collapsed.^[14]

References

1. "Vaughn". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
2. Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
3. Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. p. 215. ISBN 0-87004-332-3. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
4. Carlson, Linda (2003). Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p. 239. ISBN 0-295-98332-9. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012.
5. McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 990. ISBN 978-0875952772.
6. "Vaughn Station". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. May 22, 1986. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
7. Miller, Wayne. "Rosboro Plans To Double BigBeam Production". Miller Wood Trade Publications. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
8. "Rosboro: Committed to Your Business" (PDF). Rosboro Lumber Company. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
9. "Bohemia to sell its Calif. Mills; Oregon Plants Also Considered". The Bulletin. Associated Press. December 5, 1990. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
10. United Press International (October 7, 1987). "Beam Plant Planned". The Bulletin. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
11. Bacon, Larry (November 25, 1987). "Bohemia Considers Purchasing Sawmill". The Register-Guard. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
12. Wyant, Dan (September 20, 1988). "Bohemia Starts Up New Facility for Producing Laminated Beams". The Register-Guard. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
13. Bishop, Bill (September 14, 1983). "Mills to Close Permanently". The Register-Guard. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
14. "55 Employees Return to Bohemia Plant Jobs". The Register-Guard. April 27, 1985. Retrieved June 12, 2011.

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