Orodell, also known as Oro Dell, is an unincorporated historic community in Union County, Oregon, United States, on the Grande Ronde River at the northwest edge of La Grande.[1] It is considered a ghost town.[2] Either Charles Fox or Stephen Coffin started the first sawmill in the Grande Ronde Valley there in the summer of 1862, after a joint-stock company between Coffin and other local settlers failed to materialize in 1861.[2][3][4][5]
A townsite was platted in 1868.[2][3][6] Orodell post office was established in 1867 and named by taking part of the Greek word oros, meaning "a mountain", and combining it with the English word "dell".[2] The post office closed in 1878, and although the place is still known as Orodell, there has not been a community there for many years.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Orodell". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. May 22, 1986. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 731. ISBN 978-0875952772.
- ^ a b Deumling, Dietrich (May 1972). The roles of the railroad in the development of the Grande Ronde Valley (masters thesis). Flagstaff, Arizona: Northern Arizona University. pp. 15–16. OCLC 4383986.
- ^ An Illustrated history of Union and Wallowa counties. Western Historical Publishing Company. 1902. p. 138. OCLC 16675525.
- ^ Evans, Elwood (1889). History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington: Embracing an Account of the Original Discoveries on the Pacific Coast of North America, and a Description of the Conquest, Settlement and Subjugation of the Original Territory of Oregon; Also Interesting Biographies of the Earliest Settlers and More Prominent Men and Women of the Pacific Northwest, Including a Description of the Climate, Soil, Productions of Oregon and Washington. Vol. 2. North Pacific history Company. p. 227. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ Bailey, Barbara Ruth (1982). Main Street: Northeastern Oregon. Oregon Historical Society. p. 25,46. ISBN 0-87595-073-6.
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