Nashville, Oregon
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Nashville 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 Lincoln County,
Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
, United States. Its post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1978 and is now served by the
Blodgett, Oregon Blodgett is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Benton County, Oregon, United States, where Oregon Route 180 meets U.S. Route 20 in the Central Oregon Coast Range west of Corvallis. It is near the confluence of t ...
, 97326 post office. It was founded by ,Bennett, Tom; Edmonston Jr., George
"Part 9 of 30: Wallis Nash...a 'gift' to Corvallis college from Victorian England"
Oregon State University Alumni Association. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
who came from England to settle in Oregon in 1879. He died in Nashville in 1926.


Further reading

* Nash, Wallis. ''Oregon: There and Back in 1877''. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press, 1976 (Reprint of 1878 ed.)


References

Unincorporated communities in Lincoln County, Oregon 1888 establishments in Oregon Populated places established in 1888 Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{LincolnCountyOR-geo-stub