Orleans, Oregon Explained

Orleans was a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. It was established around 1850^[1] and destroyed in the Great Flood of 1862. It was not rebuilt.^[2] The city was located across the Willamette River from Corvallis. The Orleans cemetery survived because it was built on high ground^[1] at 44.5697°N -123.1913°W.^[3]

See also

• List of ghost towns in Oregon

References

44.5701°N -123.1907°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Orleans . Linn County Cemeteries . 1940 . 2016-09-02.
2. Notes on the Winter of 1861–2 in the Pacific Northwest . Edward Lansing Wells . Northwest Science . 1947 . 21 . 78 . The historic town of Champoeg, where the first provisional government in Oregon was adopted, was completely destroyed, never to be rebuilt. The same was true of the town of Orleans, across the Willamette River from Corvallis. . https://web.archive.org/web/20110610144529/http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/org_NWS/NWSci%20journal%20articles/1940-1949/1947%20vol%2021/21-2/v21%20p76%20Wells.PDF . June 10, 2011.
3. Orleans Cemetery.