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Hebron, Oregon

Joseph Taylor settled Hebron–originally known as Corpus Prairie–between 1852 and 1853. The town was later renamed after Hebron Church, constructed in 1880, and did not have its own post office. Much like the surrounding communities, Hebron depended on the timber industry to sustain its economy. Between 1867 and 1925, William Markham Whitney, William Payne, Ambrose, and Walter Woodard constructed five lumber mills. Woodard abandoned and relocated his mill to Latham, Oregon, in 1940 when the United States Army Corps of Engineers began constructing Cottage Grove Dam. This dam displaced the residents of Hebron, and they never rebuilt their community.