Hopewell is an

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, United States. It is at the eastern terminus of

Oregon Route 153 Oregon Route 153 is an Oregon state highway running from OR 18 in Bellevue to OR 221 near Hopewell. OR 153 is known as the Bellevue-Hopewell Highway No. 153 (see Oregon highways and routes). It is long and runs east–west, entirely wit ...

, south of

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and a few miles west of Wheatland, at the east base of the

Eola Hills The Eola Hills are a range of hills northwest of Salem, Oregon, United States. They stretch from the community of Eola about north to Yamhill County. They are divided from the Salem Hills by the Willamette River The Willamette River ( ) is ...

. Hopewell post office was established in 1897, and closed out to Amity in 1903. Hopewell is now served by the

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post office. The name Hopewell does not appear in the

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s of the 1880s. Hopewell was the home of

George K. Gay George Kirby Gay (August 15, 1810 – October 7, 1882) was an English sailor and later settler in the Oregon Country. He was a member of the Willamette Cattle Company that brought livestock to Oregon and built the first brick house in the Unit ...

, who voted in the May 1843 Champoeg Meeting that created the

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, and built the first brick residence in the state of Oregon near Hopewell in 1842. Gay's great-grandson, singer

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, spent his early years in Hopewell.

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Historic images of Hopewell
from Salem Public Library Unincorporated communities in Yamhill County, Oregon 1897 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1897 Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{YamhillCountyOR-geo-stub