29/07/2014 4:47 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westklic/howcoc7a.htm Search billions of records on Ancestry.com Search POST OFFICES WITHIN THE PRESENT BOUNDARY OF WASCO COUNTY The names and data pertaining to the post offices of Wasco county was supplied by Edwin R. Payne, Salem, Oregon post office clerk, stamp and cover collector who said, "my stamp and cover collecting hobby led to old covers (envelopes) postmarked from post offices in Oregon that no longer exist. In order to know where these places were I started a list of dead post offices. Others gave me help and I made research in old postal guides in various libraries, but such directories gave no dates of establishment or discontinuation of offices. I interested Lewis McArthur in the subject and through him and a close friend in Washington, D.C., we hired girls to copy the Oregon post office ledgers, about 4000 work sheets, in the National Archives! From those sheets I have compiled the Oregon post office list of all offices! They could be obtained in no other way and from no other source. All of this information will be in the third edition of Lewis A. McArthur's OREGON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES which will be off the Binford & Mort press in Portland November 1952. It is a must for history lovers and collectors." From Mr. Payne's list of Oregon post offices we have compiled two lists of Wasco county post offices. The first list are the 55 offices within the present boundary of Wasco county. The distances indicated from The Dalles are by the original roads, not our longer highways. Name of post office. First Postmaster Established Discontinued Distance Antelope (settled 1884) Bakeoven Big Eddy Boyd (11 Mile House) Celilo (settled 1882) Celilo (was Ferry Clarno (Wheeler & Wasco) Criterion (settled 1905) Cross Hollows (Shaniko) Dalles, The (settled 1838) Dalles changed to Wascopam Dalles, The Dalles City Incorporated Dant(was Frieda) Deschutes Bridge(Miller) Deschutes Bridge(see Moody) Dillon (was Ferry) Dufur (15 Mile House 1885) Endersby (on 8 Mile) English (Columbia District) Fairbanks (Lower 15 Mile) Ferry (On Celilo Canal) Flanagan(8 E Sherar) Freebridge (on lower 15 Mile) Friend Frieda (Ore. Trunk R.R.) Kaskelia (Ore. Trunk R.R.) Keen (3 S. Nansens) Kingsley (8 S. Dufur) 1 of 218 29/07/2014 4:47 PM 29/07/2014 4:47 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westklic/howcoc7a.htm Matney (Upper Mill Creek) Maupin Moody (Stiles or Miller) Mosier (settled 1854) Mt. Hood (Near Tygh) Nansene (In Long Hollow) North Junction (O.T.RR) Ortley (7-Mile Mt.) Pratville (Wamic) Ridgeway (7 S. Shaniko) Rowena (9 W. on U.P.RR) Simnasho (Warm Springs Res.) Sinamox (Ore. Trunk R.R.) South Junction (O.T.RR) First postmaster Howard Maupin Andy Swift Herdon Maurey J.E. Barnett Irwin Taffe Chas. E. Frye Chas. Huntley Ira Canfield Wm. Gibson Milo M. Cushing W.C. Waldron Wm. Tom Ferry Chas. A. Williams George Fligg C.C. English Cyrus C. Cooper Wm. Tom Ferry Jess Flanagan Le) F. Peterson Theodore Buskuhl (Changed to Dent) Ralph Brown Owen Jones Robert Kelley Isaac Matney Wm. H. Statts Ida Carlisle John J. Lynch Wm. Hollandworth Wm. O. Adams J.C. McCurdy L.D. Firebaugh Mary J. Mackie Mary Cook 2 of 218 29/07/2014 4:47 PM 29/07/2014 4:47 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westklic/howcoc7a.htm Frank Bourhill Established Aug. 7, 1871 Dec. 1, 1875 May 2, 1911 March 6, 1884 Nov. 26, 1889 May 20, 1915 Sept. 15, 1894 Sept. 11, 1913 May 23, 1879 Nov. 5, 1851 Sept. 3, 1853 March 22, 1860 June 22, 1857 Dec. 1, 1950 March 3, 1860 Feb. 20, 1888 April 8, 1914 Jan. 11, 1878 April 20, 1892 July 2, 1896 Oct. 31, 1905 Oct. 26, 1912 Oct. 11, 1905 Jan. 29, 1908 Feb. 28, 1903 June 16, 1950 June 15, 1914 April 14, 1911 Jan. 24, 1878 June 12, 1895 Dec. 18, 1909 Dec. 7, 1911 June 31, 1884 May 27, 1872 May 17, 1880 June 23, 1927 Feb. 9, 1912 Nov. 24, 1879 March 3, 1892 July 7, 1911 Aug. 6, 1886 Jan. 2, 1914 June 21, 1911 Discontinued Mar. 30, 1918 July 31, 1938 3 of 218 29/07/2014 4:47 PM 29/07/2014 4:47 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westklic/howcoc7a.htm Mar. 15, 1914 Oct. 31, 1949 June 30, 1928 May 27, 1887 Sept. 3, 1853 March 22, 1860 Dec. 6, 1880 Oct. 14, 1893 May 20, 1915 Oct. 13, 1906 Aug. 12, 1898 July 31, 1909 April 8, 1914 March 15, 1912 July 30, 1910 Nov. 30, 1950 June 15, 1921 March 31, 1912 Nov. 30, 1920 April 23, 1896 Oct. 1, 1928 Jan. 11, 1878 Oct. 14, 1904 April 7, 1932 Nov. 30, 1922 Sept. 1, 1880 Oct. 31, 1905 Nov. 15, 1918 Dec. 31, 1914 1949 Distance. 65SE 51SE 5E 11SE 12E 12E 85SE 45SE 58SE 0 0 0 0 80SE 19E 19E 4 of 218 29/07/2014 4:47 PM 29/07/2014 4:47 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westklic/howcoc7a.htm 8E 15S 13S 10E 10E at 38E 12E 25SE 60SE OTRR 20SE 22SE 15SW 50SE 19E 17W 30S 19SE OTRR 10W 45SE 8 7SE 9W 60SE OTRR Name of Post Office First Postmaster Established Discontinued Distance Shaniko (Cross Hollow) '` -John Wilcox ' March 31, 1900 58SE Sherars Bridge (Below Ty~)";~ Eira-Hemmingway July B, 1868 Jan. 4,'1883 30SE Sherars Bridge (Settled'1860)"Joseph Sherar Jan. 4,' 1883 Jan. 25,1'9,38 30SE Smock (5 S. Wamic) Elizabeth Ledford Oct. 2f, 1899 May 31,'1909- 50SE Taylor (10 SW Dufury - ' 11cier Taylor Aug. 20j'1909 , Sept. 30, 1910 25SE iygn vatiey ' " ii. Staley June 17, 1873 = " 30SE Victor(6 W. Ma;Apin) Vila Jones Nov. 14, 1893 Nov. 12, 1,812 40SE Wamic(Was Praltrilley Mary Chamberlain Nov. 24, 1884 - 45SE Wapinitia Jerry Young March 21, 1878 Fob.. 8; f935 47SE Wasco(2 E Dufur-12 Mi.House)"Williem Gilliam April 2B, 1868 June 3, 1872' 12SE Wascopam (The Dalles), Milo M. Cushing Sept. 3, 1853 March 22, 1860 0 Wrentham (On lower 15 M1.); Mrs. M. Farrington Oct. 12, 1900 June 30, 1818 12E ----------------------------------------- POST OFFICES OUTSIDE THE PRESENT BOUNDARY OF WASCO COUNTY Wasco County was established in January 1854, being taken off Champoeg (Marion) and Clackamas counties. Wasco county in 1854 commenced at Cascade Locks, followed the summit of the Cascades to the California 5 of 218 29/07/2014 4:47 PM 29/07/2014 4:47 PM http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westklic/howcoc7a.htm boundary; east along that boundary, east along the Idaho-Nevada and Idaho-Utah boundary, east along the Wyoming-Utah boundary to the territory of Nebraska at the summit of the Rocky mountains at Fort Bridger; thence northwest along the summit of the Rookies; including Yellowstone Park and including Butte, Mont; thence west to the Columbia river and Cascade Locks; comprising an area of over 250,000 square miles! and the largest county the U.S. ever had! The federal postal service in this vast area was not established until Nov. 5, 1851 at The Dalles. There were some settlements in this Oregon Territory such as Fort Bridger in 1843; Fort Laramie 1849 altho in Nebraska Territory was counted in Wasco county for postal purposes; the Walla Walla mission of 1836; Fort Hall (near Pocatello) Idaho 1836; Cascade Locks 1843; Fort Hall as an American military post in 1849; Fort Laramie as a military post in 1849; Fort Colville 1855; Fort Boise 1859; Spokane; Wallula trading post of 1821; The Dalles Mission of 1838. After Wasco county was created Baker and Umatilla counties were taken off Wasco in 1882. We examined Mr. Edwin Payne's postal list and all post offices in Baker and Umatilla counties before and in 1862 are counted as Wasco county post offices. Some of these are Umatilla, LaGrande, Union, Auburn, Eagle City, Shanghai, Independence, Marysville, Augusta (Baker City) Express Ranch; Umatilla county Cayuse, Cove, Emigrant Springs, Egon Station, Pendleton, Pilot Rook. When Grant County was taken off Wasco in 1884 they had Dayville, John Day, Prairie City, Canyon City, Camp Watson. When Lake County was taken off Wasco in 1874 it had the following towns Draws Valley; Antler, Lakeview, Goose Lake, Paisley, New Pine Creek, Silver Lake, Summer Lake, Whitehall, Whettle's Ferry. In Klamath, then a part of Lake there was Bonanza, Klamath Agency, Klamath, Klamath Falls, Lost River, Merganser, Keno, Tule Lake, Yainax. Over on Malheur was Jordan Valley and Camp Harney near Burns. In Gilliam county taken off Wasco in 1885 we find Arlington called Alkali, Baird, Blalock, Clem, Condon, Crown Rock, Fleet, Legality, Oasis, Scotts Ferry on John Day and Willows. In Jefferson County which we lost as Crook in 1882 Cleek, Cross Keys, called also Troutcreek, Willoughby, near Grizzley and Warm Springs over on the Indian Reservation, Cherry Creek, Haycreek. In Deschutes County which we lost as Crook in 1882 there was Camp Polk, now called Sisters. In Wheeler county, which we lost to Crook in 1882 there was Bridge Creek, Burnt Ranch, Fossil, Liberty, Mitchell, Lost Valley and Wagner. In Morrow County, which we lost as Umatilla in 1862 there was the old emigrant and stage stop Cecil. Sherman County Sherman county was taken off Wasco in 1889 and had the following post offices: Badger, Biggs, Deschutes Bridge, Emigrant Springs, Erskineville, Fultonville; Grass Valley, Grover, Kent, McDonald's Ferry, Moro, Rufus, Rutledge and Wasco, called Spanish Hollow. Hood River Hood River county was taken off Wasco in 1908 and at that time the following post offices were In Wasco county: Cascade Locks, Dee, Hood River, Menominee, Mt.