Linn County Towns and Geographical Places
Abberdeen — Crowfoot
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Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 1W, Sect 27
Name
Origin: ? Aberdeen, Michigan
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
13 Jun 1892
First
(and only) Postmaster:
Mary Flaugher
Post
Office Discontinued
24 April 1894
Short-lived post office, located
between Lebanon and Lacomb.
From Oregon Geographic Names:
"Efforts to learn the reason for this odd name for a Linn County post
office have not been fruitful. No
real Aberdonian would waste the extra letter in the spelling, and the style must
have been selected by someone other than a Scot....About 1890 one John Flaugher
started a store at this home about eight miles east of Lebanon and applied for a
post office which was supposed to have been named in compliment to a former
home, Aberdeen, Michigan. The
compliler has been unable to find a place called Aberdeen, Michigan, in
available records, but there may have been one about 1890."
Original post office application was submitted with name of "Salt Lake City" but name was rejected. Salt Lake School No. 96 was located at Twp 11S, Range 1W, Section 27. Abberdeen was probably located nearby.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 3W, Sect 5-6, 7-8
Name
Origin: Albany, New York
Other
Names: Takenah, New Albany
Post
Office Established:
8 Jan 1850
First
Postmaster:
John Burkhart
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Post
Office Discontinued
County Seat of Linn County, and its largest town. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 14S, Rge 4W, Sect 36
Name
Origin: Thomas Alford (situated on his DLC)
Other
Names: Liverpool, Muddy Station
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Railway station and community, north of Harrisburg. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 2W, Sect 31
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Proposed village at Brownsville, but never developed. See Town Histories -- Brownsville.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 4E, Sect 23
Name
Origin: "Medina" spelled backwards
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
10 Jan 1896
First
Postmaster:
William B. Lawler
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Post
Office Discontinued
16 Jun 1902
Near the mining community of
Quartzville.
From Oregon Geographic Names: "Anidem is one of those names which was formed by spelling another word backward. Oregon has had a number of post offices with this type of name but most of them have faded from the picture. Anidem was established... with William B. Lawler first postmaster when mining activity was resumed near the old location of Quartzville. Lawler was apparently the principal in Lawler's Gold Mines, Ltd., the company which undertook the revival. Albert Burch was the manager and he gives further details in OHQ, V. 43, p. 109.... Lawler had previously lived at a community or locality called Medina, possibly in Colorado. Why he chose to burden his mining development with such an odd name as Anidem is a mystery to the compiler. In 1906 there were approximately a dozen post offices in the United States with the name Medina but none in Colorado. However, there may have been a Medina mine in Colorado. These post offices were probably all named for Medina in Arabia, although it is of course possible that in some cases the name Medina was of Spanish origin. The compiler does not know why the name Medina turned out to be so popular in the United States."
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 2W, Sect 11
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A station on the Southern Pacific Company line.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 1W, Sect 25
Name
Origin: Burrell's Inn, Burl Inn (Burrells were early settlers in the
area).
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
16 Dec 1899
First
Postmaster:
Wm. T. Loofbourrow
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Post
Office Discontinued
30 Sept 1937
A community near Hamilton Creek, about seven miles southeast of Lebanon. See Town Histories.
From Oregon Geographic Names: "Early in Oct. 1944, residents of Berlin were astonished to learn that arrangements had been made to change the name of their community to Distomo for the place in Greece so horribly treated by the Germans. This change in name, to be accompanied by a blast of nationwide radio and other publicity, was said to be in the interest of democracy, but the promoters of the plan were not sufficiently interested in practical democracy to ask the local residents for their views about the business. These local citizens organized a democratic revolt and the scheme was abandoned. A project to change all the names in this country so as to eliminate those commemorating places and people of nations with which the United States had at one time or another been at war would have surprising results."
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 5E, Sect 16
Name
Origin: Berry family located in area.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A station on the Southern Pacific Company line.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 3W, Sect 8
Name
Origin: Presumably, Boston,
Mass.
Other
Names: Boston Mills
Post
Office Established:
22 Sept 1869
First
(and only) Postmaster:
William Simmons
Post
Office Discontinued
28 Aug 1871
Early-day town, east of Shedd. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 2W, Sect 25
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on Southern Pacific Company line, located on DLC of Alexander Brewster.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 2W, Sect 31, also 14S, R2W, Sec 6
Name
Origin: Hugh Brown, early settler.
Other
Names: Kirk's Ferry, Calapooya
Post
Office Established:
18 May 1859
First
Postmaster:
James W. Meach
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Post
Office Discontinued
One of the first towns developed in Linn County. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 2W, Sect 31
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A station on the Southern Pacific Company line.
Location:
Twp 9S, Rge 2E, Sect approx.
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A Station on Corvallis & Eastern Railway. This station is listed on the Polk's Linn County Directory of 1913, but not include don other lists and maps. Location approximate.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 4E, Sect 23
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Located near the mining community
of Quartzville.
From Land of Linn: "Bryant City can hardly be called a town, although perhaps more activity took place in this area than in most towns of the county in the late 1890's. Bryant City grew because of Quartzville. It was the night life district of the gold country, located on Canal Creek approximately four miles down the gulch from Quartzville on the old wagon road leading in from Gates. The owners of Quartzville mines did not permit gambling or the sale of liquor on their lands, and as a result, Bryant City was developed, mainly as a place of entertainment for the gold diggers. As miners congregated on weekends from neighboring gulches around Quartzville there was nothing in hell quite equal to Bryant City."
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 4W, Sect 19-20
Name
Origin: Possibly Burlington, Iowa
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
17 Nov 1855
First
(and only) Postmaster:
William M. McCorckle
Post
Office Discontinued
7 Nov 1857
Early town on the Willamette River, south of Albany. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 2W, Sect 31
Name
Origin: Local Indian tribe -- various spellings.
Other
Names: Various spellings -- Calapooia, Kalapooya
Post
Office Established:
8 Jan 1850
First
Postmaster:
Hugh H. Spaulding
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Post
Office Discontinued
18 May 1859
First post office established at Brownsville. See Town Histories.
Calapooya
Location:
Twp 14S, Rge 1E, Sect 28 or 29
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Oregon Electric Railway line.
Location:
Twp 14S, Rge 4W, Sect 34
Name
Origin: Possibly McCartney family, early settlers.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Oregon Electric Railway line north of Harrisburg. Located on DLC of J. M. McCartney.
Location:
Twp 13S, Rge 3E, Sect 31
Name
Origin: Cascade mountain range.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
12 May 1898
First
Postmaster:
George M. Geisendorfer
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Post
Office Discontinued
A post office and summer resort, also known as Cascade Mineral Springs, settled in 1890. It lies on the west slope of the Cascade Mountains, 42 miles from the summit, in the valley of the South Santiam River, where the Little Soda Creek flows into it.
From Land of Linn: "Cascadia was never intended to be a town--only a stage stop across the mountains and a recreational resort. However, as the county developed, this little place has become as well known as any of the major towns in the county. In 1898 George Geisendorfer established a post office and built a hotel with 30 rooms and a barn for 80 horses, both to take care of the travellers crossing the mountain and for visitors to the mineral spring. In 1940, the property was sold to the Sate of Oregon where a 300-acre state park has been maintained and visited by hundreds of thousands of people."
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 2W, Sect 9 approx.
Name
Origin: Descriptive of its central location between Albany &
Lebanon
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
13 July 1852
First
(and only) Postmaster:
Joel Ketchum
Post
Office Discontinued
19 Apr 1861
One of the earliest post offices, east of Albany, which serviced the East Knox Butte-Lakeview communities from 1852 to 1861. The first Christian church in Linn County was established in the community, but now only a nearby cemetery established in 1866 remains.
Location:
Twp 10S, Rge 3W, Sect 29
Name
Origin: Early settler John A. Conser.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Station on the Oregon Electric Railway. John A. Conser owned land nearby.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 2W, Sect 2, 11
Name
Origin: Crabtree family, early settlers.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
28 Feb 1887
First
Postmaster:
Thomas L. Ball
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Post
Office Discontinued
Community and rail station, south of Scio. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 11S, Rge 3W, Sect 36 approx.
Name
Origin:
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
A station on Southern Pacific Railway. Location approximate -- unable to locate on any maps.
Location:
Twp 14S, Rge 1W, Sect 18
Name
Origin: Early settler Jasper V. Crawford
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
8 Feb 1870
First
Postmaster:
Jasper V. Crawford
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Post
Office Discontinued
Early settlement, east of Brownsville. See Town Histories.
Location:
Twp 12S, Rge 2W, Sect 23
Name
Origin: Descriptive name of intersecting roads in area.
Other
Names:
Post
Office Established:
First
Postmaster:
Post
Office Discontinued
Community near Lebanon.
From Oregon Geographic Names: "Crowfoot is a crossroads community on the South Santiam Highway about two miles south of Lebanon. It has not had a separate post office but has been served through Lebanon. All the available evidence says that the locality got the name Crowfoot because the roads intersecting there came together in a pattern that suggested the track left by a crow's foot. This is shown clearly by the USGS map of the Lebanon quadrangle. Katherine Harris, in a column headed "Off the Record," in the Lebanon Express for Jan. 23, 1947, gives a good deal of history about the place called Crowfoot. It was named many years ago, apparently by Hester Sturdevant, an early resident of the locality. The Grange Hall, then one of the important buildings at Crowfoot, was formerly the old college hall at Sodaville. When the college was abandoned, the building was moved to Crowfoot."
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