Goshen, Oregon

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Goshen, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Former Assembly of God church in Goshen
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Goshen
Coordinates: 43°59′44″N123°0′37″W / 43.99556°N 123.01028°W / 43.99556; -123.01028
Country United States
State Oregon
County Lane
Elevation
499 ft (152 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code
97405
Area code(s) 458 and 541
GNIS feature ID1136329

Goshen is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is located at the junction of Oregon Route 58, Oregon Route 99, and Interstate 5. [2]

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History

In 1853, there was stagecoach stop at what is now Goshen, on the stage line that led from Oregon City to the gold country in Jacksonville. [3] The Goshen area was settled in the 1870s. [4] Goshen post office was established in September 1874, with John Handsaker as first postmaster. [5] In the Bible, Goshen was the pastoral land in lower Egypt occupied by the Israelites before the Exodus. [5] An author for the Lane County Historian wrote that Goshen was named by John Jacob Hampton, [6] although Oregon: End of the Trail says that it was named by Elijah Bristow. Bristow saw the area as a "land of promise." [7] The post office was discontinued in 1957, when it became an Independent Rural Station of Eugene. [8] [9]

In 1884, Goshen was a station on the Oregon and California Railroad (later the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific, and today the Central Oregon and Pacific), and the town had a store, blacksmith shop, and a school. [10] [11]

In 1940 Goshen had a population of 93. [7]

The Methodist Episcopal Church of Goshen was built in 1910; as of 1990 it was a private residence. [4] [12] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Andrew J. Keeney House, built circa 1870, is also in the Goshen area. [13]

Economy

Goshen is the site of a Cone Lumber Company sawmill. [14] At one time the community had a truckstop and a café. [3] The truckstop and café were torn down in 1999 and replaced with a Pacific Pride commercial filling station. [15] As of 2024, Goshen has a convenience store, a cannabis shop and a bar (The Local Losers Lounge) added to the local economy.  In addition to the commercial fueling station, a commercial tire shop and a propane dealer were established years ago.

Education

Goshen School, which served grades K–8 in the Springfield School District, was closed in June 2011. It now houses the Willamette Leadership Academy, a charter school serving students in grades 6-12.

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References

  1. ↑ "Goshen". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 40. ISBN   978-0-89933-347-2.
  3. 1 2 Andrews, Jennifer (1997). "The Goshen Truckstop". Influx. University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  4. 1 2 Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp.  524–525. ISBN   0-87004-332-3.
  5. 1 2 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 415. ISBN   978-0875952772.
  6. ↑ Fay Hampton Robertson (April 1965). "John Jacob Hampton, an Oregon Pioneer of 1845". Lane County Historian. 10 (1). Lane County Pioneer-Historical Society: 12. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oregon (1940). Oregon: End of the Trail. American Guide Series. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort. p.  316. OCLC   4874569.
  8. ↑ Helbock, Richard W. (1998.) United States Post Offices, Volume 1 - The West, p. 95, Lake Oswego, Oregon: La Posta Publications.
  9. ↑ Directory of Post Offices, (1959). Washington, D.C.: USPO Department.
  10. ↑ McArthur, Lewis L.; Cynthia B. Gardiner (1996). The Railroad Stations of Oregon. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 88. ISBN   0-295-98332-9.
  11. ↑ Walling, Albert G. (1884). Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon. Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling Publishing Company. p. 446. ISBN   9780598541451. OCLC   16672446.
  12. ↑ "Methodist Episcopal Church of Goshen". Oregon Historic Sites Database: Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation . Retrieved January 17, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Keeney, Andrew J, House". Oregon Historic Sites Database: Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation . Retrieved January 17, 2011.
  14. ↑ "A Profile of Rural Lands and Communities in the Southern Willamette Valley" (PDF). Lane Council of Governments. 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 18, 2004.
  15. ↑ Collins, Eric (March 29, 1999). "Patrons will miss popular truck stop". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. p. C1. Retrieved September 18, 2016.


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