Vaughn is an

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in Lane County,

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, United States. It is located about south of Noti in the foothills of the

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near Noti Creek. Author

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described Vaughn as "a

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in the meadows".

History

Vaughn was established in the 1920s by the Snellstrom Brothers Lumber Company. The

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was later owned by the

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, then sold to

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(IP) in the mid-1950s. Vaughn is near the route of

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(formerly the

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Coos Bay Line, once a branch of the

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). On a 1930 map the community is shown on the property of Roland Vaughn. Because the railroad makes a horseshoe bend and misses the community, the railroad's Vaughn Station is about a mile west of there. Today Vaughn is the site of a Rosboro Lumber Company laminated beam plant that was purchased from

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in 2005. The beam plant was built by Bohemia, Inc. in 1988. Bohemia also ran a

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plant at Vaughn, which it had purchased from International Paper in 1982 after IP closed it; Bohemia reopened the mill in 1983. The plywood plant was closed temporarily in 1985 after a section of the roof collapsed.

References

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