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Copperfield, Oregon
Copperfield is a former town in Baker County, Oregon, United States, located on the west bank of the Snake River, near a place called The Oxbow.
==Early history==
According to the historian Lewis McArthur, the town was formed in the late 1890s as "Copper Camp", and was inhabited by prospectors of the local copper ore; However, the Oregon writer Stewart Holbrook asserted that "there was no copper in Copperfield", and that the community "had one purpose; namely, to cater to the uninhibited appetites of more than two thousand men who were engaged on two nearby construction projects."〔Holbrook, Stewart. "The Affair at Copperfield", reprinted in ''Wildmen, Wobblies and Whistle Punks'' (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1992), p. 74〕
Copperfield was platted around 1898, along a Northwest Railway Company line that never developed. Soon the locality was known as "Copperfield" and a post office established in 1899.〔 The population grew to 1,000 by 1910 because two tunnels were being dug near The Oxbow by the local railroad company and by the predecessor of the Idaho Power Company.〔 This railroad activity was described as a "brawling railroad construction camp" during this period by Barbara Ruth Bailey.〔
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