Macleay, Oregon

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States}}

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File:Country Store, Macleay Oregon 6-23-2010.jpg

Macleay is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States.{{GNIS|1123665}} It is about nine miles east of downtown Salem in the Waldo Hills near the Little Pudding River.

This locale was originally named "Stipp" for local settler John L. Stipp, whose land claim was just west of present-day Macleay.{{Cite OGN|7th|page=}} Stipp donated the land for what is now known as the Stipp Memorial Cemetery. Stipp post office was established in 1880, and the name changed to "Macleay" in 1882. Donald Macleay was a prominent merchant of Portland, and along with fellow Scot William Reid, was one of the investors in the narrow-gauge Oregonian Railway Company, which was built through the area.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4i1grNoMcWgC&q=In+Search+of+Western+Oregon |title= In Search of Western Oregon |author= Friedman, Ralph |authorlink= Ralph Friedman |year= 1990 |edition= 2nd |page= 382 |publisher= The Caxton Printers, Ltd |location= Caldwell, Idaho |isbn= 0-87004-332-3}} Macleay gave money to build a schoolhouse in the Stipp area, near the new railroad station, so the post office was renamed in his honor. Macleay was platted in 1884.{{cite web |url= http://www.co.marion.or.us/PW/Planning/zoning/comprehensiveplan/rural.htm |title= Rural Development |publisher= Marion County, Oregon |accessdate= 2010-01-21 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100625145223/http://www.co.marion.or.us/PW/Planning/zoning/comprehensiveplan/rural.htm |archive-date= 2010-06-25 |url-status= dead }} Macleay post office ran until 1939.

Ownership of the railroad line passed on to Southern Pacific and today it is owned by Union Pacific.{{cite web |url= http://www.co.marion.or.us/NR/rdonlyres/367B0A77-CFDE-4CE2-868D-74D06A7DAA6A/3311/macleay1.pdf |title= Macleay Community Plan |publisher= Marion County, Oregon |date= May 2000 |accessdate= 2010-01-21 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110723042404/http://www.co.marion.or.us/NR/rdonlyres/367B0A77-CFDE-4CE2-868D-74D06A7DAA6A/3311/macleay1.pdf |archive-date= 2011-07-23 |url-status= dead }} The Macleay Country Store has been in operation since 1916. The community also has an active Grange hall, a fire station,{{cite web |url= http://www.mcfd1.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92:st4-macleay&catid=40:equip-app |title= Station 4 |publisher= Marion County Rural Fire District #1 |accessdate= 2010-01-21}} and the former school currently serves as a church.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}