Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour
1989
This self-guided automobile tour was intended as a promotional handout at OSU Research Forests field trips and events, and as a goodwill publication for interested local citizens and residents. Copies were given away free: the first printing was 2500 copies and was distributed in a few months time. A second edition, with fancier cover graphics and an 8' x 10" foldout map, was produced in two printings -- first, 1000 copies, and then 500. So far as known, these were the only printings of this tour guide.
In addition to goodwill and promotion, the tour guides were also intended to help keep recreational visitors to OSU Research Forests in known locations and routes of travel.For the first several years it was in use, bright fiberglass markers with Stop #'s were placed at each of the 11 scheduled stops. These were also placed, wherever possible, near road pull-outs so that tourists had safe parking and were out of the way of local and commercial traffic.
The creation of this booklet led to the completion of the Soap Creek Valley Oral History Series, followed by an OSU Masters Thesis: Using Oral Histories to Document Changing Forest Cover Patterns: Soap Creek Valley, Oregon, 1500-1999. For those wanting to learn more about Soap Creek Valley history, please see the list of References at the bottom of this page.
Citation:
Zybach, Bob 1989. Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 32 pp. [PDF_3.5_MB].
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Anderson, Chris 1993. "Forest of Voices," Georgia Review. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Vol. XLVII, No. 3 (Fall): 483-499.
Carlson, Judy, Marlene Finley, Bob Zybach and Phil Hays 1995. Bessie Murphy. Botanizing in Benton County, Oregon, 1900-1991. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #11. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 114 pp. [PDF_2.2_MB].
Jackson, Royal G. and Jennifer A. Lee 1990. Paul M. Dunn. Biographical Sketch and Story of the Adair Tract, Benton County, Oregon. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #02, 2nd printing. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 53 pp. [PDF_1.8_MB]
Jackson, Royal G., Jennifer Lee, and Bob Zybach 1997. William Davies: Biographical Sketch and Management of OSU Research Forest: 1946-1973. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #13. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 83 pp. [PDF_3.2_MB]
Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp. [PDF_1.7_MB]
Zybach, Bob and Janet Meranda 1994. Eugene Glender. Growing Up on a Tampico Family Farm, Benton County, Oregon: 1910-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #09. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 155 pp. [PDF_4.2_MB].
Zybach, Bob, Kevin Sherer (Schrier) and Angela C. Sondenaa 1990. 1990 Oregon State University Research Forests “Human Use” Cultural Resources Inventory. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 202 pp.
Zybach, Bob and Kevin Sherer (Schrier) 1995. Wanda Marcks Cook. The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, Benton County, Oregon: 1904-1939. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #12. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 100 pp. [PDF_3.8_MB].
Zybach, Bob and Angela C. Sondenaa 1994. Charlie Olson. Biographical Sketch and Early History of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Oregon: 1900-1920. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #07. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 185 pp. [PDF_4.2_MB]
Zybach, Bob 1990. Lorna Grabe. Family History and Story of the Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation, Benton County, Oregon. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #01, 2nd Printing. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 67 pp. w/appendix and index. [PDF_836_KB].
Zybach, Bob ca.1991. Welcome to Camp Arboretum. Historical brochure prepared for Oregon State University Research Forests, Corvallis, Oregon: 6 pp., tri-fold w/map.
Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp. [PDF_22.7_MB].
Zybach, Bob 1994. Velma Carter Rawie. A History of the Carter Family and the Town of Wells, Benton County, Oregon: 1845-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #10. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 130 pp. [PDF_23.8_MB].
Zybach, Bob 1996. Charles and Norman Hindes. Family History and Story of the Soap Creek Sawmilling and Logging Camp, Benton County, Oregon: 1928-1931. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #14. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 76 pp. [PDF_3.8_MB].
Zybach, Bob 1999. Using Oral Histories to Document Changing Forest Cover Patterns: Soap Creek Valley, Oregon, 1500-1999. Oregon State University MAIS thesis, Corvallis, Oregon: 321 pp. [PDF_12.4_MB]
