Drain

Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The populace was 1,151 at the 2010 enumeration. Deplete is named after town originator and government official Charles J. Drain, who gave 60 sections of land of adjacent land to the Oregon and California Railroad in 1871. In 1876, a mentor street was built up amongst Drain and Scottsburg.

Drain was the beginning stage for the Drain-Coos Bay stage line, which hurried to Scottsburg and after that by waterway steamer to Gardiner and the shoreline on the south side of the mouth of the Umpqua River. The Drain Normal School was established in the group in 1883 by the Methodist Church. The state assumed control over the school in 1885 and named it as the Central Oregon State Normal School, before it shut in June 1908.