Apartments for Rent in Junction City, OR with Garages

"Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" If you remember the old line from "Schoolhouse Rock_,"_ you know the answer -- "hooking up words and phrases and clauses." Well, it's agricultural products, manufactured goods and people connections that gave Junction City, Oregon its name.

Some might think it's so named because of the y-junction of Highway 99, splitting into West and East. Some assume the name came about because it was home for a water port connecting to the Willamette River. Farm products were sent downriver to Portland where they were often loaded on ships bound for ports around the world, while the supplies the farmers needed came upriver. The name actually came because of the railroad, but this place was a junction long before that. The town was once home to what was billed as the biggest opera house between Portland and San Francisco and famous saloons. These days, it's much more the small farming town on the outer edges of a much bigger community.

It's close enough to Eugene to commute -- and to go see the Oregon Ducks compete for a national title! For that reason, homes rent in Junction City for slightly more than in many farm communities, and the availability is generally lower