Rowland, Oregon

Rowland is a ghost town in Linn County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.^[1]

History

Rowland was formerly a station on the now-abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad East Side Line, beginning in the 1880s as an Oregonian Railway station.^[2]^[3]^[4] A post office was established at Rowland in 1886, and remained in operation until 1905.^[5]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rowland (historical)
↑ McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [First published 1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 828. ISBN 9780875952772. OCLC 53075956.
↑ "Historical scrapbook". The Times. Mar 10, 1966. p. 4. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
↑ "Town Histories". Linn County Roots. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
↑ "Linn County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

External links

Historic image of Rowland from Salem Public Library

Municipalities and communities of Linn County, Oregon, United States

County seat: Albany

Cities	Albany‡ Brownsville Gates‡ Halsey Harrisburg Idanha‡ Lebanon Lyons Mill City‡ Millersburg Scio Sodaville Sweet Home Tangent Waterloo

CDPs	Cascadia Crabtree Crawfordsville Holley Lacomb Peoria Shedd South Lebanon West Scio

Other unincorporated communities	Foster Jordan Kingston Marion Forks Riverside Santiam Junction

Ghost towns	Burlington Rowland Tallman Thomas

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 44°17′40″N 123°04′39″W / 44.2945682°N 123.0775898°W / 44.2945682; -123.0775898

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