Brockway, Oregon


Brockway is an unincorporated community in Douglas [County, Oregon|Douglas County], Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 42, approximately nine miles southwest of Roseburg.
Originally known as Civil Bend, referring to the "...boisterous activity of visitors to the horseraces," the name was changed in 1889 when postal authorities objected to a name with two words. "Brockway" was chosen in honor of local farmer and pioneer B. B. Brockway.

Benjamin Brockway

Benjamin Benson Brockway was an Oregon Trail pioneer of 1852 from New York. He began farming in the Lookingglass Valley.
Find a Grave website has no tombstone for Benjamin Benson Brockway.
The website http://oregonpioneers.com/ortrail.htm
only has this Brockway entry for 1852
BROCKWAY, Beman Bostwick : m1. 21 Jun 1870 FEATHERS, Margaret Ann; m2. 1883 COCKELREAS, Mary Francis; s/o Horace and Eliza Brockway; buried Civil Bend Cemetery, Winston, Douglas County, Oregon
Beman Bostwick Brockway was from Ripley, NY