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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A Civil War veteran from Illinois, John Addison (1844-[[1928]]) came to Oregon in [[1884]]. He bought<br />
a lumber mill in [[Creswell]], which he disassembled and rebuilt in [[Lorane]]. The roads were<br />
so bad that the mill could operate only three or four months of the year, so Addison built miles of<br />
wooden “plank roads” — complete with high wooden trestles — to roll or drag logs from the wilderness to the mill ponds. Addison and his wife, [[Addison, Nancy Seward|Nancy Seward Addison]], had twelve<br />
children, and the family business stayed in the Lorane area until [[1945]].<br />
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