Wendling is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, located northeast of Marcola.

Initially, Booth-Kelly had no intention of building Wendling, The original plan was use the Mohawk River to float logs to a new mill near Coburg.

To do this they needed to acquire the right-of-way for the Southern Pacific railroad from Springfield to their proposed site on the former homestead of William McCullough.

[7] It was secured and Wendling mill and supporting structures were built in the fall of 1899 while railroad construction was underway.

[10] On the night of August 24-25, 1910 embers falling from a nearby forest fire destroyed all but three homes in the company-owned residential section of Wendling, the church, school, cookhouse and bunkhouse.