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Ardyth Kennely interviews Newt McDaniel about the ghost town of Ellendale (WPA oral history)
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In late 1937 or early 1938, writer Ardyth Gibbs (known to literary history today as Ardyth Kennely, author of several bestsellers in the 1950s) sat down with pioneer Newton McDaniel to talk about some early Willamette Valley history concerning the ghost town of Ellendale, in Polk County. (https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001936/)