Cloverdale is an unincorporated

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 community in Lane County

Lane County, Oregon

-National protected areas:*Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge *Siuslaw National Forest *Umpqua National Forest *Willamette National Forest -Government:...

, Oregon

Oregon

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, United States. It is located about three miles northeast of Creswell

Creswell, Oregon

Creswell is a city in the Willamette Valley of Lane County, Oregon, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 5,031.- Geography :According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which , or 2.42%, is water....

 on Oregon Route 222

Oregon Route 222

Oregon Route 222 is an Oregon state highway, consisting of two disconnected sections.The north section runs from OR 126 Business in Springfield to OR 58 near Pleasant Hill...

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Cloverdale was the site of one of first sawmill

Sawmill

A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end....

s in Lane County, built in 1851. A gristmill

Gristmill

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 was added in 1852. A townsite

Townsite

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 was laid out at Cloverdale in 1855, but the plat

Plat

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 was later canceled. Cloverdale was considered a "thing of the past" as early as 1884. At one time Cloverdale had a store, and a school. The former Cloverdale Methodist Episcopal Church

Methodist Episcopal Church

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 now serves as a wedding chapel. The church was built in 1904, and later served Baptist and Mennonite congregations and then as a community hall. The building was purchased by the McKinlay family in 1999 and restored. The school building, constructed in 1911, is also still standing.

External link

• April 2010 story about Cloverdale church in the Register-Guard
• Image of Cloverdale chapel from Flickr

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