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Green Villa
Distance: 6.9 Mi3110 Independence Hwy
97351 Independence -
Historic Deepwood Estate
Distance: 13.6 Mi1116 Mission Street Southeast
97302 Salem -
Ceres Gleann
Distance: 13.9 MiPO Box 5343
97304-0343 Salem -
Oregon Glove Co
Distance: 14.0 Mi1490 12th St SE
97302 Salem -
Wildwood, Inc.
Distance: 15.1 Mi4985 Battle Creek Rd SE Ste 200
97302-9620 Salem
Description
In the early years of Dallas, before the coming of logging trucks, the Arboretum site provided a vital service for Dallas Industry. This was when timber cut in the high country came crashing down La Creole Creek to an early sawmill in Dallas. A series of 3 dams along this small creek held water to boost logs along when sufficient rainfall flooded the upper creek. At a curve in the La Creole, where the Arboretum is now, a diversion dam propelled the logs into a flume, which carried them into a Mill Pond, now Dallas City Park. The sawmill was located at the West entrance to the park and is identified now by a large cross section of log erected there. Remaining in the Arboretum is the last visible trace of this hazardous early logging, the old Flume. the channel has been a verdant fern and flower path for years, but now it has been re-identified as the Historic Log Flume. Today when rains fill La Creole Creek, the flood waters still rush into the Arboretum through the old Flume. Flume: an inclined channel for conveying water usually from a distance for various uses (as power production, transportation, or irrigation).