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Wingville:
Once a thriving little village northwest of Baker City. Wingville is now a
productive farming community noted for its very historic site of the
Wingville Cemetery. It is located on Pine Creek road between Brown Lane and
Pocahontas Road.
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Wingville Cemetery Census
1965 or
2006
Wingville School 1908
Gravesite, Confederate Pvt. Charles A. Patton
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Wingville 1862
The First Settlement |
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Settled in Sept. 1862, Wingville
derived its name from the General Price's Army during the Civil War years.
The early settlers of this vicinity are to be noted for
many of the first Spiritual and Material, contributions to Powder River
Valley. The first furrow turned in this fertile valley was plowed in the
spring of 1863, bringing forth bountiful harvests.
These pioneers men and women contributed greatly to the
entire region, first child born in Powder River Valley, First Church
building erected, (still standing on this site), First County
Commissioner, First District Judge, First Land Claim (1883), First State
Legislator, First Druggist, First Subordinate Grange Chartered (1874), in
what is now Baker County, First US Post office was established to serve
this prosperous community
Erected 1963 by Wingville Grange |
Wingville
Wingville was
once a thriving little village northwest of Baker City. Major General
Sterling Price of the Confederate Army, was active in Missouri and Arkansas in
1861-64. He was finally defeated by the Union forces in 1864. Many
Southern Democrats thereafter migrated to Oregon. Numbers of them had been
soldiers in Price's campaigns.
The newcomers in Oregon were derisively termed by
Republicans, "the left wing of Price's Army." They contributed largely to the
southern admixture in the pioneer population of Oregon. A community of
these people near Baker City was referred to as Wingville.
Wingville post office was established June 23, 1871,
with John R. McLain as first postmaster. The office was closed in July
1879.
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