Disston 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 Lane County,

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, southeast of Cottage Grove where Brice Creek and

Layng Creek Layng () is a variant of the surname Laing. Notable people with the surname include: * Henry Layng (died 1726), English Anglican priest * Kathryn Layng (born 1960), American actress * Mabel Frances Layng (1881–1937), British artist * Thomas ...

join to form 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", ...

. It is about a mile west of the

Umpqua National Forest Umpqua National Forest, in southern Oregon's Cascade Range, covers an area of in Douglas, Lane, and Jackson counties, and borders the Crater Lake National Park in Southern Oregon. The four ranger districts for the forest are the Cottage Gro ...

. Its post office opened in 1906 and ran until 1974. Cranston Jones—the first

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—was also one of the founders of the first

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 ...

in Disston and the name of the town came from the famous Disston saws. At one time there were two sawmills in Disston, the Wheeler-Osgood Lumber Company and the I. E. James Lumber Company. Both mills closed down in the 1950s. Disston was a sawmill and logging town and also a supply point for miners heading into the nearby

Bohemia mining district The Bohemia mining district is an area of about in the Cascade Range of the U.S. state of Oregon. Near Bohemia Mountain in Lane County, about southeast of Cottage Grove, the district was the most productive of the mining areas in the Western Cas ...

. The terminus of the

Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway The Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway is an Oregon-based short line railroad that began near Eugene as the Oregon and Southeastern Railroad (O&SE) in 1904. O&SE's line ran along the Row River between the towns of Cottage Grove and Disston ...

logging railroad was also in Disston.Row River Trail
/ref> Much of the former rail line has now been converted to the

Row River National Recreation Trail Row River National Recreation Trail is a rails to trails conversion in the U.S. state of Oregon. It follows the Row River for between Cottage Grove and Culp Creek, passing by Dorena Lake, and provides access to many forest trails of Umpqua ...

, although the

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doesn't extend into Disston. A hiking trail managed by the

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, the Noonday Wagon Road Trail, follows an 1896 wagon road that started in Disston and was used to haul supplies into the mining district.

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Historic images of two covered bridges near Disston
from the Salem Public Library
Historic image of students at Disston School
from the University of Oregon Library Unincorporated communities in Lane County, Oregon 1906 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1906 Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{LaneCountyOR-geo-stub

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