The Izee Squirrel Shoot...

[Mark W.]

Interesting if you do a Google image search for Izee, Oregon that's the first image that comes up.it is also the photo at the top of the Friends of Izee Facebook page.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Interesting if you do a Google image search for Izee, Oregon that's the first image that comes up.it is also the photo at the top of the Friends of Izee Facebook page.

I believe those might be the houses from the old Ellingson Lumber Company mill. If I remember correctly they were taken out in the mid to late '60's after the Keerin's ranch bought that piece of ground.

 

[Cavedweller]

Nope the company owned town of Izee all the buildings were barn red and about 20 years ago I heard the owned bulldozed the whole place as he was tired of chasing hippies out.

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That ain't Izee. I don't know where it is, but I never saw anything like that in all the years I was out there.

Maybe your thinking of the old Ellis mill just up the road to dayville??? It's been gone since at least 1990.

Definitely not Dayville. The town of Izee was located here:

Izee · Oregon 97820

Oregon 97820

www.google.com

That photo looks similar to the print I had, but mine was black and white, and from a different angle.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Definitely not Dayville. The town of Izee was located here:

Izee · Oregon 97820

Oregon 97820

www.google.com

That photo looks similar to the print I had, but mine was black and white, and from a different angle.

I started spending a lot of time out there about '74 and the only things that I ever saw at the site your map shows were the old schoolhouse and the Grange Hall.

 

[Going Tits Up]

Did someone say Squirrels 🐿

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[Cavedweller]

I started spending a lot of time out there about '74 and the only things that I ever saw at the site your map shows were the old schoolhouse and the Grange Hall.

As I mentioned in post 13, the town history I saw said the buildings were dismantled and the materials shipped elsewhere (Albany I think) for sale. I'm not sure when but probably prior to '74. Wikipedia says the post office closed in 1954.

ETA: Interestingly, the location was still marked on the state highway map as late as 2019, the most recent one I've seen.

 

[Cavedweller]

I believe those might be the houses from the old Ellingson Lumber Company mill. If I remember correctly they were taken out in the mid to late '60's after the Keerin's ranch bought that piece of ground.

Looks like we are talking about the same place.

CENTRAL OREGON HISTORY: Mill town established on south fork of John Day River

Ellington Lumber Company Mill was isolated site that required housing and amenities for mill employees

pamplinmedia.com