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HOGAN
Calapooya Creek
1918 - 1954
August 10, 1918: "During the session of the County Court this week the county roadmaster was ordered to prepare plans and specifications for a bridge across Calapooia creek, 1 1/2 miles below the town of Oakland, to connect with Green Valley road, and the County Clerk was instructed to advertise for bids for construction of said bridge. This will eliminate the necessity for climbing the big hill by way of the Oakland cemetery, for the residents of the Green Valley and Kellogg districts. The new route is practically level." (Roseburg Review)
August 24, 1918: "The county court met in special session today to open the bids on the Oakland bridge. There being no bids the county road master was ordered to proceed to construct the bridge according to plans and specifications already drawn." (The Evening News)
January 4, 1933: "The traffic out of Oakland to Elkton will have to take the Green Valley route, it was announced, as a bent and a 50-foot section of the fill at the Hogan bridge was carried out by the flood." (The News-Review)
December 11, 1942: "The Hogan bridge on the Green Valley road out of Oakland was the most seriously damaged as one bent was washed out by the high water. It has been temporarily repaired, however, and traffic has been restored." (The News-Review)
December 31, 1945: "Damage to Douglas County bridges and culverts amounted to $30,000 as result of last week's storm, F.C. Frear, county roadmaster, declared this morning.
Worst damage, was to the approach of the Hogan bridge at Oakland. There the approach was washed away entirely by the raging waters of the Calapooia and Green Valley Creeks." (The News-Review)
February 16, 1946: "Repairs on the Hogan bridge crossing Calapooia creek west of Oakland, must wait until late spring or summer when concrete piers may be built, County Roadmaster F.C. Frear said today. The approach to the bridge was washed out during the floods in December.
A county bridge crew which recently surveyed the damage, Frear said, discovered that the bottom of the stream is down to bed rock, so that new piling cannot be driven.
When the water level of the stream goes down during the summer, concrete sills will be constructed to support a new approach span to the bridge. Cost of the construction would be $3,500, Frear estimated.
The Hogan bridge was constructed in 1918 and withstood the floods of 1927 Frear said. Old resident in the area told him that that the water in Calapooia creek this year had reached its highest level in 58 years." (The News-Review)
February 4, 1955: "The Douglas County Court signed orders Thursday for the vacation of two county roads. Both were made obsolete because of new road construction by the county last summer.
The road vacated was the Hogan Bridge section of the road from Oakland to Green Valley.
Access to properties lying along the old stretches of roads was left in good order." (The News-Review)
March 26, 1955: "Order vacating section of county road No. 23 known as Hogan Bridge made after regular posting and hearing on same." (The News-Review)