Crawfordsville is a
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
and
unincorporated community
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in
Linn County,
Oregon
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, United States.
As of the
2010 census it had a population of 332.
It is located about southeast of
Brownsville and southwest of
Sweet Home on
Oregon Route 228, near the
Calapooia River.
It has a
post office
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with a
ZIP code of 97336.
History
Crawfordsville was founded on the land of Philemon Vawter Crawford in 1870 by Crawford and Robert Glass.
When the post office was established in 1870, it was named for Crawford.
[ Crawford was born in ]Madison, Indiana
Madison is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. As of the 2010 United States Census its population was 11,967. Over 55,000 people live within of downtown Madison. Madison is the large ...
, in 1814 and he arrived in Oregon via the Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and Westward Expansion Trails, emigrant trail in North America that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail crossed what ...
in 1851.[ His son, Jasper V. Crawford, was the first postmaster.][ Philemon Crawford had previously helped establish the Boston Flour Mill near Shedd.
In 1915 Crawfordsville had a population of 300, two ]sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logging, logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes ...
s, a flouring mill, a high school, an elementary school, and three churches.Sikh
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s from Pakistan and India who worked for the Calapooya Lumber Company.
Demographics
Education
Crawfordsville Elementary School, part of the Sweet Home School District, closed in 2011, 158 years after its founding in 1853. Area elementary students now attend Holley Elementary School in Holley.
Points of interest
The Crawfordsville Bridge over the Calapooia River is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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.
References
External links
Historic images of Crawfordsville
from Salem Public Library
Images of Crawfordsville
from Flickr
from Linn County Roots
History of the Finley Mill in Crawfordsville
from Linn Genealogical Society
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Census-designated places in Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Linn County, Oregon
1870 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1870
Census-designated places in Linn County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon