Walden is an

unincorporated Unincorporated may refer to: * Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality * Unincorporated entity, a type of organization * Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress ...

community in Lane County,

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

, United States. It is about southeast of Cottage Grove, near the confluence of the

Row River The Row River is a river, approximately long, in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It rises in the Cascade Range and flows into the Coast Fork Willamette River near Cottage Grove. The stream was originally known as the "East Fork Coast Fork", ...

and Mosby Creek. Walden was a station on the Oregon and Southeastern Railroad (now converted to the Row River Trail). According to state representative and local lumber company owner L. L. "Stub" Stewart, the station was named for a family of early residents in the area. There is a Nathan B. Walden listed in the 1880 Census for the Cottage Grove Precinct. The 1973 film '' Emperor of the North'' was shot in the Walden area along the rail line. The Brumbaugh covered bridge, a

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

property, once stood near Walden, spanning Mosby Creek. It was dismantled and the wood used in the Centennial Covered Bridge in Cottage Grove. The Stewart and Mosby Creek bridges still stand in the Walden area, as well as the historic Walden Store & Gas Station building, built circa 1900. The store closed in about 2002.

Notable people

Opal Whiteley Opal Irene Whiteley (December 11, 1897 – February 16, 1992) was an American Nature Writing, nature writer and diarist whose childhood journal was first published in 1920 as ''The Story of Opal'' in serialized form in the ''Atlantic Monthly'', ...

and her grandparents lived in Walden; Opal mentioned the area in her book ''The Diary of Opal Whiteley''.

References

External links

Historic images of Walden
from Salem Public Library

from Center for Electronic Studying, University of Oregon
Images of Walden
from Flickr Unincorporated communities in Lane County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{LaneCountyOR-geo-stub