Hadleyville

From Lane Co Oregon

This pioneer community was named for H. G. Hadley who settled in Lane County in the early 1850's. It is located on the Territorial Highway south of Crow. There is no connection to a theatrical production that used the name of Hadleyville.

The congregation was a capella and was called the Centralview Church of Christ. The earliest meeting place was the Hadleyville High School.

The church may have been established by John and Nancy Sutherland, evidently after they left New London. John and Nancy are buried there at the McCulloch Cemetery. Nancy lived with her daughter Emma C. Powell (Mrs. George A.) until her passing.

Elaine Beebe attended church there in her childhood and was baptized across the highway in Coyote Creek. The building has been demolished, and only a person with a good memory like Elaine would be able to point out the location, just south of Hadleyville. Historian Clarence Swander lists the church as beginning in 1891. The deed to the property was recorded in 1910, so the building was built shortly after that year.