Hopewell is an unincorporated community in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. It is at the eastern terminus of Oregon Route 153, 10 miles (16 km) south of Dayton and a few miles west of Wheatland, at the east base of the Eola Hills.

Hopewell
Unincorporated community
Marker on Oregon Route 221 commemorating early Hopewell resident George Gay
Coordinates: 45°5′50″N 123°5′27″W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Yamhill
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	97304
Area code(s)	503 and 971

Hopewell post office was established in 1897, and closed out to Amity in 1903.[1] Hopewell is now served by the Salem post office. The name Hopewell does not appear in the gazetteers of the 1880s.[1]

Hopewell was the home of George K. Gay,[2] who voted in the May 1843 Champoeg Meeting that created the provisional government, and built the first brick residence in the state of Oregon near Hopewell in 1842.[2] Gay's great-grandson, singer Johnnie Ray, spent his early years in Hopewell.

References

External links

• Historic images of Hopewell from Salem Public Library

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