Goshen 

Population: (2020) 2,456

Schools

Grange: Goshen Grange #561

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Fire Stations
Chamber of Commerce

History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goshen,_Oregon

In 1853, there was stagecoach stop at what is now Goshen, on the stage line that led from Oregon City to the gold country in Jacksonville.[4] The Goshen area was settled in the 1870s.[5] Goshen post office was established in September 1874, with John Handsaker as first postmaster.[6] In the Bible, Goshen was the pastoral land in lower Egypt occupied by the Israelites before the Exodus.[6] An author for the Lane County Historian wrote that Goshen was named by John Jacob Hampton,[7] although Oregon: End of the Trail says that it was named by Elijah Bristow. Bristow saw the area as a "land of promise."[8] The post office was discontinued in 1957, when it became an Independent Rural Station of Eugene.[9][10] In 1884, Goshen was a station on the Oregon and California Railroad (later the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific, and today the Central Oregon and Pacific), and the town had a store, blacksmith shop, and a school.[11][12] In 1940 Goshen had a population of 93.[8] The Methodist Episcopal Church of Goshen was built in 1910; as of 1990 it was a private residence.[5][13] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Andrew J. Keeney House, built circa 1870, is also in the Goshen area.[14] 

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