Olney, Oregon

Olney is an unincorporated community and former company town in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 202 approximately eight miles southeast of Astoria.

[2][3] There were several logging camps near Olney, many originally only accessible by boat up the Youngs River or by Albert S. Kerry's Columbia and Nehalem River Railroad.

[4] In 1910, the Western Cooperage Company camp was established in Olney.

[4] Western Cooperage provided company housing for its workers and in 1915 the population was 50, which was near its maximum.

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