Workers came from all over the country to find a good paying timber job during Oregon’s lumber industry boom of the early 1900s. Communities grew into towns and lumber companies like Booth-Kelly funded temporary logging camps. Donkeyville was one of those camps and it sprang up across the river from Leaburg. The easiest way for the children in Donkeyville to get to school was crossing the McKenzie River by ferry. This photo shows the ferry docked on the river and the little white building in the background is the school.