Wendling, Oregon

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Wendling, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Wendling Bridge, a covered bridge over Mill Creek
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Wendling
Coordinates: 44°11′36″N122°47′51″W / 44.19333°N 122.79750°W / 44.19333; -122.79750
Country United States
State Oregon
County Lane
Elevation
646 ft (197 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
97454
Area code(s) 458 and 541
GNIS feature ID 1136886

Wendling is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, located northeast of Marcola. [1] Wendling's post office operated from 1899 to 1952. [2] The town was named for George X. Wendling, a San Francisco investor, who was the largest investor in Booth-Kelly's expansion into the Mohawk. [3] Wendling was created as a company town for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company.

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History

Initially, Booth-Kelly had no intention of building Wendling, The original plan was use the Mohawk River to float logs to a new mill near Coburg. Lane County granted them a 90 year franchise for movement on the river. [4] [5] This met with harsh resistance from the other valley mills, loggers and farmers. [6]

Booth-Kelly then decided to build a mill and supporting elements near the timber. To do this they needed to acquire the right-of-way for the Southern Pacific railroad from Springfield to their proposed site on the former homestead of William McCullough. [7] It was secured and Wendling mill and supporting structures were built in the fall of 1899 while railroad construction was underway. [8] [9] The railroad was finished and the first train came into Wendling on September 3, 1900. [10]

Fires

On the night of August 24-25, 1910 embers falling from a nearby forest fire destroyed all but three homes in the company-owned residential section of Wendling, the church, school, cookhouse and bunkhouse. The mill, store, and company offices were saved. [11] Booth-Kelly rebuilt within two months and kept the mill and camps running during that time. [12]

In the morning hours of September 26, 1917, the planer mill and dry sheds were burned to the ground. The sawmill and other structures were saved. [13]

During the forenoon of July 6, 1922, the saw mill and nearby kilns were destroyed by fire. [14]

Months after the mill was closed at Wendling and nearly all equipment was stripped from its interior, the mill superstructures and the powerhouse burned in a fire on September 29, 1946. No other buildings were lost. [15]

Other

Wendling Bridge, a covered bridge, carries Wendling Road over Mill Creek at Wendling. [16] Built in 1938, the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wendling". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Lane County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Contract Let". Eugene Daily Guard. September 20, 1899.
  4. ↑ "Valuable Franchise". Daily Eugene Guard. January 11, 1899.
  5. ↑ "The Mohawk Franchise". Daily Eugene Guard. January 14, 1899.
  6. ↑ "Sawmill Men Protest". Morning Oregonian. January 17, 1899.
  7. ↑ "Railroad to Mohawk". Daily Eugene Guard. June 9, 1899.
  8. ↑ "Eugene Will Expand". Eugene City Guard. August 26, 1899.
  9. ↑ "Contract Let". Daily Eugene Guard. September 20, 1899.
  10. ↑ "First Train In". Daily Eugene Guard. September 4, 1900.
  11. ↑ "Graphic Story of Forest Fires". Eugene Daily Guard. August 25, 1910.
  12. ↑ "Wendling is Fast Rebuilding". Eugene Daily Guard. November 5, 1910.
  13. ↑ "Planing Mill and Dry Shed Are Burned". Eugene Daily Guard. September 26, 1917.
  14. ↑ "Wendling Mill Wrecked by Fire". Springfield News. July 6, 1922.
  15. ↑ "Old Wendling Mill Burns to Ground in $90,000 Blaze". Eugene Register-Guard. September 30, 1946.
  16. ↑ "Mill Creek (Wendling) Covered Bridge" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. June 6, 2011. p. 23. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  18. ↑ Link, Gary (1992). Bennett, Lola (ed.). Hayden Bridge (PDF) (Report). Washington, DC: Historic American Engineering Record. Survey number: OR-19.

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