Linn County Towns and Geographical Places
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Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 3W, Sect 24
Name
Origin:
Other
Names: Iola
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Considered the geographic center of Linn County. A town was planned, but never established. See "County Seat Question".
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 1W, Sect 15
Name
Origin: Santiam Indians, a Kalapooian tribe.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
16 Jan 1887
First
Postmaster:
James Hatchett (Matchett?)
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Post
Office Discontinued
26 Apr 1906
The name Santiam, with varied spellings, has been used for several Oregon post offices. This one was located between Brownsville and Waterloo.
Santiam
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 2W, Sect 10 approx.
Name
Origin: Santiam Indians, a Kalapooian tribe.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
14 Mar 1851
First
Postmaster:
Russell T. Hill
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Post
Office Discontinued
30 Jul 1852
The name Santiam, with varied spellings, has been used for several Oregon post offices. This one was located near Lebanon. See Town Histories -- Lebanon.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 3W, Sect 3
Name
Origin:
Other
Names: Syracuse
Post
Office Established:
14 Mar 1851
First
Postmaster:
Samuel S. Miller
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Post
Office Discontinued
3 Jun 1852
The name Santiam, with varied spellings, has been used for several Oregon post offices. This one was located in the northwest corner of Linn County, near Jefferson. See Syracuse.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 1W, Sect 18
Name
Origin: Near Crabtree
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
9 Apr 1850
First
Postmaster:
Jacob Conser
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Post
Office Discontinued
27 Jul 1852
The name Santiam, with varied
spellings, has been used for several Oregon post offices.
From Oregon Geographic Names: An office called Santyam Forks was established in Linn County, Apr. 9, 1850, with Jacob Conser postmaster. John Crabtree became postmaster Oct 4, 1850, and the office was discontinued July 27, 1852. It is known that Jacob Conser was living near the present site of Scio early in 1850, and John Crabtree lived in the same general locality. It may be assumed that the office was in the neighborhood.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 1W, Sect 18
Name
Origin: Scio, Ohio
Other
Names: McDonald's Precinct
Post
Office Established:
3 Oct 1860
First
Postmaster:
Euphronius E. Wheeler
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Post
Office Discontinued
Early Linn County, town, tenth incorporated town in Oregon. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 3W, Sect 7
Name
Origin: Captain Frank Shedd DLC
Other
Names: Shedds
Post
Office Established:
28 Aug 1871
First
Postmaster:
Almon Wheeler
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Post
Office Discontinued
25 Aug 1871
Railroad town, south of Albany. See Town Histories -- Boston.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 2W, Sect 1
Name
Origin: Combination of parts of the names of two pioneer residents,
Shelton and Washburn
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
9 Jun 1890
First
Postmaster:
Nevils B. Washburn
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Post
Office Discontinued
31 Jul 1946
Post office and town, north of Scio, now abandoned. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 1E, Sect East
Name
Origin: Descriptive of soda springs in area.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
24 Sept 1869
First
(and only) Postmaster:
Daniel D. Gibson
Post
Office Discontinued
7 Dec 1873
First of several post offices located in the area of mineral springs, northeast of Foster. ("Soda Springs" was also used as a name of Sodaville, but this post office was at Foster.)
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 3E, Sect or 4E
Name
Origin:
Other
Names: Sodaville
Post
Office Established:
14 Mar 1876
First
(and only) Postmaster:
Isaac Hutchins
Post
Office Discontinued
11 Sept 1876
Post office at community of Sodaville. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 2W, Sect 36
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
16 Apr 1873
First
Postmaster:
William A. Peterson
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Post
Office Discontinued
8 Dec 1933
Early settlement and mineral springs resort, southwest of Lebanon. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 2W, Sect 28
Name
Origin: Local resident, W. E. Spicer
Other
Names: Leng
Post
Office Established:
17 Aug 1886
First
Postmaster:
Adam A. Basher
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Post
Office Discontinued
30 Nov 1904
Railway station, shipping point on the Oregonian Railway narrow gauge line running from Shelburn to Brownsville. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 1E, Sect 31-32
Name
Origin: Descriptive of geographic area.
Other
Names: Buckhead
Post
Office Established:
13 Mar 1874
First
Postmaster:
John R. Hughes
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Post
Office Discontinued
Early settlement, long a sleepy little town, later industrialized by logging and timber industry. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 3W, Sect 3
Name
Origin:
Other
Names: Hale's Ferry
Post
Office Established:
4 Oct 1850
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
27 Jul 1852
Very early settlement of northwest
Linn County, along North Santiam River and near Jefferson.
From Land of Linn:
"Syracuse, earlier known as Hale's Ferry, was the first town in Linn
County to be born and the first to die. A
gravel bar, out in the middle of the Santiam River, serves as a tombstone.
Milton Hale saw the importance of
establishing a ferry to ply between the north and south banks of the Santiam
River a few miles downstream from present Jefferson, Oregon.
Here he built as ferry for the travelling settlers and in 1846 platted
the townsite of Syracuse. On his
claim was the best ferry site for quite a distance, and his was the only ferry
upon the river. Practically all
immigrants travelling southward headed for the ferry.
A post office, store, blacksmith shop and dwellings sprung up.
The post office was established October 4, 1850 with the name and
location being changed to Santiam City, July 27, 1852.
On the opposite north bank another area of land was platted by Samuel Miller and named Santiam City. Settlement came to both sites but the Santiam City location became the more aggressive of the two, and Syracuse began to decline. However, the flood of 1861 put an end to both towns as they were completely washed away. Today, both sites, now only a ghostly memory, lie under the gravel bed of the Santiam River."
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 3W, Sect 5, 6, 7, 8
Name
Origin: Indian word for "deep and placid pool" or perhaps
"hole in the ground"..
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
For two years, the name of Albany. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 2W, Sect 32
Name
Origin: Local settler James Tallman
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
19 Jul 1886
First
Postmaster:
Elvis E. Hammack
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Post
Office Discontinued
15 Aug 1923
Railway stop, with tracks running north, south, east and west from its busy depot, northwest of Lebanon. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 3W, Sect 7
Name
Origin: Descriptive of long stretch of rail tracks in area.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
17 Sept 1872
First
Postmaster:
Thomas J. Beard
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Post
Office Discontinued
Railway station on the Southern Pacific line south of Albany. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 2E, Sect 7
Name
Origin: Fredrick Thomas of Thomas Creek.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
4 May 1898
First
Postmaster:
William Price More
Postmasters
Post
Office Discontinued
31 Jan 1921
A railroad station on the Oregon Pacific Railroad, later the Corvallis & Eastern, near the mouth of Thomas Creek. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 15S, Rge 4W, Sect 9 & 16
Name
Origin: Samuel R. Thurston, first territorial delegate in Congress.
Other
Names: Harrisburg
Post
Office Established:
31 Dec 1853
First
(and only) Postmaster:
Gamaliel Parrish
Post
Office Discontinued
3 Dec 1856
The name Thurston was probably
used more than once in Linn County. It
was an early name for what was later called Harrisburg, but perhaps the post
office was located elsewhere. See
Town Histories -- Harrisburg.
From Land of Linn: "Thurston is assumed to have been located in the Harrisburg area, but some written statements indicate that the Thurston store and post office were located upon the Gamaliel Parrish property about two miles west of the old Rock Hill schoolhouse southwest of Lebanon on the Lebanon-Brownsville road."
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 4W, Sect 34
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Oregon Electric Railway line
Location:
Twp 14S, Rge 3W, Sect 15
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Southern Pacific Company line.
Location:
Twp 14S, Rge 2W, Sect 18
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
18 Feb 1854
First
Postmaster:
William Blain More
Postmasters
Post
Office Discontinued
18 Aug 1859
Very early settlement, near Brownsville, site of historic union of two branches of the Presbyterian church. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 4E, Sect 26
Name
Origin: Descriptive of soda springs in area.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Community, mineral springs, near Foster.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 4W, Sect 22
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Oregon Electric Railway line.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 2W, Sect 10 approx
Name
Origin: George Washington?
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
30 Jul 1852
First
Postmaster:
John W. Bell
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Post
Office Discontinued
2 Nov 1859
Early post office in the Lebanon area. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 1W, Sect 28 & 29
Name
Origin: See notes.
Other
Names: Kees Mill
Post
Office Established:
5 Jan 1875
First
Postmaster:
Stephen D. Gager
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Post
Office Discontinued
Early settlement, southeast of Lebanon. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 3W, Sect 12
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Unable to locate any information about this locale -- railway station? Still appears as vicinity on local maps, local road signs.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 2W, Sect 12
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A station on the Southern Pacific Company line.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 2W, Sect approx.
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Appears as populated place on USGS; otherwise unable to locate.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 3W, Sect 31
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
26 Dec 1889
First
(and only) Postmaster:
George B. Whitcomb
Post
Office Discontinued
15 May 1899
A locality on Quartzville Creek about 15 miles northeast of Sweet Home, now inundated by Green Peter Lake. The name has been preserved in Whitcomb Island.
Location:
Twp 9S, Rge 1E, Sect 21
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A station on the Southern Pacific Company line.
Location:
Twp 15S, Rge 1E, Sect 34
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Oregon Electric Railway and Southern Pacific Company lines.
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