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Reserve, Oregon

The United States Forest Service established Reserve–named after the Cascade Forest Reserve–in 1908. This community housed the headquarters of the West Boundary Ranger District, and was initially inhabited by ten agricultural families, along with a forest ranger. The Big Fall Creek Civilian Conservation Corps Camp erected many of the town’s buildings between 1933 and 1935. Nineteen years later, the United States Army Corps of Engineers displaced Reserve’s residents when it constructed Lookout Point Dam. Citizens never rebuilt their town after its inundation.