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Once the West Coast’s soggiest town, Valsetz is now a memory

Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.

The little company town was located smack in the middle of the country's most productive tree-growing land; so, in the 1980s, the company drained its lake, bulldozed it into a pile, torched it, and replanted it with trees. (Valsetz, Polk County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1611c.valsetz-company-ghost-town-418.html)