Talk:Stanfield, Oregon

references added to the page

Today someone added the following:

Source: Stanfield family records, including Harriet Thankful Townsend Stanfield with Kate Stanfield, "The Story of My Life", Handwritten manuscript with family notes by Kate Stanfield, located in Stanfield Library, Stanfield Oregon (Nov 25th 1927)

This sounds a lot like WP:OR, and it wasn't attached to anything specific, but I'm including here in case someone wants to research it further. tedder (talk) 13:28, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Stanfield in trivia -- a verifiable source

I was sorting thru some of my accumulated notes when I came across an article taken from the defunct Oregon Journal: Steve Myers, "Pet Sex Ban Puts Stanfield On Map". The meat of the article is in the second paragraph:

Two weeks ago the Stanfield City Council passed an ordinance forbidding domestic animals from copulating while in public view.

The rest, as one might say, is available with a simple Google search on the string "Stanfield Oregon pet sex ban"; an urban legend. However unlike most urban legends, this article is verifiable proof that there was such a city ordinance. Well, at least for a few weeks. The drawback is that all I have is the bottom quarter of the page: no date or page number so to make this a verifiable as well as a reliable source. (Although one councilman stated he received a phone call from a reporter from the London Times; maybe an article there can be identified.) Although my scrap does have the index box (which used to appear on the front page of the Journal), stating this article was published in "74th Year -- No. 68". There are also hints in the bits of articles on this fragment that this paper was published on a Wednesday. From these clues -- & a few others -- it would appear the date of this article would be 3 March 1976.

Can anyone verify this easily, so I can use this as a verifiable citation? Otherwise, this must wait until I have a chance to get to the Central Library & search thru the microfilms for the Journal. It would appear this event is Stanfield's biggest claim to fame. -- llywrch (talk) 19:05, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Stanfield history

This was cited using unpublished manuscripts. I don't doubt its veracity, but we should try to find some other sources for this information:

Originally named Foster, Stanfield is named after Senator Robert N. Stanfield who purchased land in the area in 1903 from C. B. Wade of Pendleton for use as the headquarters of his extensive sheep and wool enterprises. Because of its proximity to the railroad, the site was used for shearing wool, holding sheep for shipping, and storing supplies for the operations in warehouses. At one time, Senator Stanfield and his brothers operated the largest sheep ranching operations in North America.

With the development of the Furnish Ditch irrigation system serving the lands around Stanfield, Sen. Stanfield joined with Henry Waldo Coe of Portland in 1909 to subdivide the area and create the town of Stanfield. Senator Stanfield got half of the lots created by the subdivision and Coe's development company got the other half.

Coe began operating excursion trains to bring interested buyers to Stanfield to see the lots that were being offered for sale. The two-story Stanfield ranch house was turned into a hotel to house the visitors.

A bank building was built with an office in the back for Stanfield. A door allowed the Senator to come and go without going through the bank lobby. The old bank building is now the office of the Stanfield Irrigation District.

Stanfield donated a number of parcels for public purposes, including the site of the high school.

I'm willing to concede the unpublished info can be used but I thought we should work on this a bit first. The relevant guidelines are WP:RS and WP:OR, and may some more granular ones as well. Valfontis (talk) 19:26, 3 March 2015 (UTC)