Dawson is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Benton County,
Oregon
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,
United States
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. Dawson lies about 6 miles west of 99W on Dawson Road west of
Bellfountain, northwest of
Alpine, and north of
Glenbrook. Dawson was the terminus of the
Southern Pacific
The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the names ...
Bailey Branch (later operated by the
Willamette & Pacific Railroad), which served the local sawmill into the 1990s but has since been abandoned.
The Hull-Oakes Lumber Company sawmill in Dawson was the last steam-powered sawmill in the United States, and the only mill in the
Pacific Northwest
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capable of cutting logs more than 70 feet in length.
References
Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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