Cottage Grove, Oregon Cottage Grove, Oregon Cottage Grove Historic District Cottage Grove Historic District Flag of Cottage Grove, Oregon Nickname(s): Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon Cottage Grove is a town/city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
The populace was 9,686 at the 2010 census. Cottage Grove is the third biggest city in Lane County.
The town/city is positioned on Interstate 5, Oregon Route 99, and the chief Willamette Valley line of the Union Pacific barns . 4.3 The town/city as a film locale Cottage Grove postal service was established in 1855 east of present-day Creswell. The office was titled by its first postmaster, G.
Pearce, whose home was in an oak grove. In 1861, the office was moved to the present site of Saginaw. In the late 1860s, the office was moved to what is now the extreme southwestern part of present-day Cottage Grove, on the west bank of the Coast Fork Willamette River. When the Southern Pacific barns was assembled through the region in the 1870s, Cottage Grove station was placed more than half a mile northeast of the postal service, on the east side of the river. This was the start of a neighborhood dispute that lasted for nearly 20 years. The citizens living near the postal service did not want it moved to the barns station, so a new office was established at the station with the name Lemati, which is a Chinook Jargon word that means "mountain". Lemati office ran from November 1893 to September 1894, but in March 1898 the Cottage Grove office was retitled Lemati and it ran that way until being permanently retitled Cottage Grove in May 1898. The town/city was incorporated in 1887, but the citizens living on the east side rebelled in 1893 and established East Cottage Grove. The Oregon State Legislature changed the name of the place to Lemati in 1895, and the signboard for the station listed Cottage Grove, as well as Lemati in lesser letters. In 1899 an act was passed that merged the two suburbs under the name Cottage Grove. The only existing veiled barns bridge west of the Mississippi River, the National Register of Historic Places-listed Chambers Railroad Bridge, is in Cottage Grove.
The City of Cottage Grove restored the bridge in 2011, reopening it on December 3. Cottage Grove has been awarded the All-America City Award by the National Civic League twice, in 1968 and 2004. Cottage Grove has been recognized as a Tree City USA by The Arbor Day Foundation for over a decade. In October 2008, Cottage Grove was also the 17th town/city in the United States to be recognized as a Green Power Community. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.77 square miles (9.76 km2), of which, 3.76 square miles (9.74 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Cottage Grove lies south of the confluence of the Row River and the Coast Fork Willamette River. This confluence effectively marks the southern end of the Willamette Valley. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Cottage Grove has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Climate data for Cottage Grove The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 90.4% White, 0.3% African American, 1.3% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 3.1% from other competitions, and 3.8% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,895 homeholds of which 32.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 14.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 36.6% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 38.3 years.
24.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.1% were from 25 to 44; 25.3% were from 45 to 64; and 16.5% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 92.84% White, 0.15% African American, 1.21% Native American, 0.92% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 1.55% from other competitions, and 3.23% from two or more competitions.
There were 3,264 homeholds out of which 33.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.4% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families.
In the city, the populace dispersal was 27.4% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Two of the biggest celebrations in Cottage Grove are Bohemia Mining Days and the Covered Bridge Festival. Cottage Grove is known as the "Covered Bridge Capital of Oregon" with six veiled bridges near the city. Five of the six bridges, Chambers Covered Bridge, Currin Bridge, Dorena Bridge, Mosby Creek Bridge, and Stewart Bridge, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Centennial Covered Bridge is a replica bridge constructed from materials salvaged from dismantled bridges.
The town/city is also home to 21 murals positioned throughout downtown that reflect the history of the community. The Cottage Theatre is positioned in the city.
The General signage in Cottage Grove where the cast and crew stayed Several films have been filmed in Cottage Grove.
In 1926, Buster Keaton's The General was filmed in Cottage Grove and the encircling countryside. The movie encompassed a spectacular locomotive crash, and the wrecked train became a minor tourist attraction until it was dismantled for scrap amid World War II. The 1973 movie Emperor of the North Pole was filmed in and around Cottage Grove, as were parts of the 1978 movie Animal House. The 25th anniversary of Animal House's release was jubilated by the people with a toga party on August 30, 2003, on Main Street, which is where the climactic parade sequence from the movie was filmed.
Portions of the movie Stand By Me were filmed along the barns tracks east of Cottage Grove, which are now the Row River National Recreation Trail, a bicycle and walking trail. Ricochet River, starring Kate Hudson, was filmed in Cottage Grove in 1997. Cottage Grove has two golf courses: Middlefield and Hidden Valley.
Dorena Lake and Cottage Grove Lake are near the city.
The South Lane School District serves Cottage Grove and the encircling area.
Cottage Grove High School, Al Kennedy Alternative High School, Lincoln Middle School, Bohemia and Harrison elementary schools and the Academy for Character Education are positioned inside the city.
Lane Community College has a Cottage Grove satellite ground that offers both credit and enrichment courses. The Cottage Grove Sentinel, with a circulation of 3,331, is the city's weekly newspaper. KNND is the small-town airways broadcast.
Jim Wright Field is a enhance airport serving small general aviation airplane , positioned one mile (1.6 km) east of Cottage Grove.
South Lane Wheels runs shuttle service in downtown Cottage Grove.
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City of Cottage Grove, Oregon.
"Past Winners of the All-America City Award".
"2010 Tree Cities USA Communities in Oregon".
Cottage Grove Sentinel.
Climate Summary for Cottage Grove, Oregon "COTTAGE GROVE, OR (351897)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Calendar of Events & Festivals | Cottage Grove | Eugene, Cascades & Oregon Coast".
Cottage Grove Area Chamber of Commerce.
Covered bridge tour brochure "Scenic Murals Directory and Map," no-charge pamphlet courtesy of the Cottage Grove Mural Committee, P.O.
Box 423, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 "Eugene, Cascades & Oregon Coast Visitor Information | Travel Lane County Oregon".
"Saluting The General in Cottage Grove".
"Cottage Grove Historical Society".
"Oregon Movie Chronology, 1969-Present".
"Cottage Grove Sentinel".
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Entry for Cottage Grove in the Oregon Blue Book Cottage Grove in the Oral History Archive Municipalities and communities of Lane County, Oregon, United States
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Cottage Grove, Oregon - Willamette Valley - Cities in Oregon - Cities in Lane County, Oregon - 1855 establishments in Oregon Territory - Populated places on the Willamette River - Populated places established in 1855
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