Goshen, Oregon | |
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.jpg) Former Assembly of God church in Goshen | |
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| Coordinates:43°59′43″N123°0′41″W / 43.99528°N 123.01139°W /43.99528; -123.01139 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Lane |
| Elevation | 499 ft (152 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 97405 |
| Area code(s) | 458 and 541 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1136329[1] |
Goshen is anunincorporated community inLane County,Oregon, United States.[2] It is located at the junction ofOregon Route 58,Oregon Route 99, andInterstate 5.[3]
In 1853, there wasstagecoach stop at what is now Goshen, on the stage line that led fromOregon City to the gold country inJacksonville.[4] The Goshen area was settled in the 1870s.[5] Goshen post office was established in September 1874, with John Handsaker as first postmaster.[6] In the Bible,Goshen was the pastoral land in lower Egypt occupied by the Israelites before the Exodus.[6] An author for theLane County Historian wrote that Goshen was named by John Jacob Hampton,[7] althoughOregon: End of the Trail says that it was named byElijah Bristow. Bristow saw the area as a "land of promise."[8] The post office was discontinued in 1957, when it became an Independent Rural Station ofEugene.[9][10]
In 1884, Goshen was a station on theOregon and California Railroad (later the Siskiyou Line of theSouthern Pacific, and today theCentral Oregon and Pacific), and the town had a store,blacksmith shop, and a school.[11][12]
In 1940 Goshen had a population of 93.[8]
TheMethodist Episcopal Church of Goshen was built in 1910; as of 1990 it was a private residence.[5][13] It is listed on theNational Register of Historic Places. The Andrew J. Keeney House, built circa 1870, is also in the Goshen area.[14]
Goshen is the site of aCone Lumber Companysawmill.[15] At one time the community had atruckstop and a café.[4] The truckstop and café were torn down in 1999 and replaced with a Pacific Pride commercial filling station.[16]
Goshen School, which served grades K–8 in theSpringfield School District, was closed in June 2011. It now houses theWillamette Leadership Academy, a charter school serving students in grades 6-12.
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