Glenwood, Lane County, Oregon

Glenwood is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.

Historically Black residents had trouble buying or renting property in Eugene, so they settled on county land on the north bank of the Willamette River.

Glenwood was one of the places outside the Eugene city limits where Black people moved after being evicted from the Ferry Street Settlement tent city near present-day Alton Baker Park due to the construction of a new Ferry Street Bridge in 1948.

[6] An area of Glenwood known in 1950 as “Skunk Hollow” had 16 Black residents, many of whom worked for the railroad.

[6] He became a reverend, and with his wife Luvenia, founded the Bethel Temple, which later purchased the church property.

[6][7] He built a new church there on Brooklyn Street that today is a homeless shelter known as the Shankle Safe Haven.

Augusta Creek, which drains Moon Mountain on the Eugene side of I-5 was historically connected to Glenwood Slough.

[2] Williams' Bakery relocated to Glenwood after being displaced by the University of Oregon's Matthew Knight Arena.

Materials collected at the receiving station are transported to Short Mountain Landfill for disposal.

Among the notable people buried at Laurel Grove are Isaac Briggs, the founder of Springfield, baseball player Howie Fox, Charnel Mulligan, one of the co-founders of Eugene, and members of Opal Whiteley's family.

Lane County map