Yarnell, Oregon
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Yarnell is an unincorporated historic locale in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It was located about 5 miles south of Mohawk, in the Mohawk Valley.{{Google maps|url= https://www.google.com/maps/dir/44.083056,-122.962222/Mohawk,+OR/@44.1075778,-123.0125842,15816m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x54c0e5ed6ddfac11:0x364df14184f88971!2m2!1d-122.915!2d44.1425!5i1?hl=en |title= Directions from Yarnell to Mohawk |access-date=January 25, 2015}}
Yarnell was a station on the now-defunct Marcola line of the Southern Pacific Railroad.{{Cite OGN|7th|page=}} It was established in 1901, and was likely named for Jere Yarnell, a local resident listed as living in the area in the 1880 census. There was a Yarnell covered bridge about a mile north of the station that carried Hill Road over the Mohawk River.{{cite web |url= http://www.woodcenter.org/CoveredBridges/queryDetail.cfm?CR_ID=&CFGRIDKEY={F0C0A641-1A5F-41AC-B271-7ADB2EA47791} |title= Yarnell |work= Guide to U.S. Covered Bridges |publisher= National Center for Wood Transportation Structures |access-date= January 25, 2015}}{{cite web |url= http://www.lostbridges.org/details.aspx?id=OR/37-20-147x&loc=n |title= Yarnell, Lane County |publisher= Lostbridges.org |access-date= January 25, 2015}} The bridge was built in 1916 and demolished in 1958. In 1915 there was a Yarnell School.{{cite news |url= http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn97071002/1915-02-11/ed-1/seq-1/ |title= Pupils Increase Spelling Record |date= February 11, 1915 |newspaper= The Lane County News |location= Springfield, Oregon |access-date= January 25, 2015}}
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External links
- [http://photos.salemhistory.net/cdm/search/searchterm/Yarnell/order/date Historic images of The Yarnell Covered Bridge] from Salem Public Library
- [https://www.flickr.com/places/United+States/Oregon/Yarnell Images of Yarnell] from Flickr
- [http://members.efn.org/~opal/mohawk.htm Mohawk Valley history], including several items about Yarnell
- [http://www.brian894x4.com/SPWendlingbranch.html History of the Southern Pacific Wendling-Mohawk branch] from Abandoned Railroads of the Pacific Northwest
{{Lane County, Oregon}}
Category:1901 establishments in Oregon
Category:Populated places established in 1901
Category:Former populated places in Lane County, Oregon
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