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Lawler, Oregon

Lawler, Oregon

Lawler was one of a handful of small towns located along the Middle Fork of the Willamette River that were submerged by Lookout Point Dam in 1954.

About this community

Dam
Lookout Point Dam
River
Willamette River (Middle Fork)
Region
Pacific Northwest
Basin
Willamette
Project
Lookout Point and Dexter
Established
1870
Inundated
1953

The community that was displaced

Displacement cost
$10,380,878
Property value
$1,163,574
Vocations
farmer, fisherman, rancher, unkown, unknown

Sources

  • “Life on Rush Island Before the Flood of '54,” Lane County Historian 37, no.3 (Fall 1992).