Wingville, Oregon

Wingville is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States.

[2] The community's name stemmed from a derisive term for former soldiers of the Confederate States Army who had served during the American Civil War under Sterling Price, a major general, and who later emigrated to Oregon.

Sometimes collectively referred to as a wing of Price's army, a group of them settled in Baker County after the war.

[3] Wingville had a post office from June 23, 1871, through July 1879.

This Baker County, Oregon state location article is a stub.

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