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From: Donna Madrid <>
Subject: Re: [ORMARION-L] Re: Linslaw
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:32:21 -0800
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Interesting! Thanks so much for the information. Suislaw was the first
suggestion made to me in answer to my question, and now I see why!

Donna Madrid

wrote:

> According to McArthur's OREGON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES (Binfords & Mort, first
> published 1928--mine is third edition of 1955), Linslaw is in Lane County.
>
> Linslaw's squib is one of the more amusing in this dry volume. Apparently
> in 1917 a petition was sent to Washington for a post office and it was
> granted in the name Linslaw. No locals knew why the name was used by the
> Post Office Department. Their theory was that the handwritten petition used
> the name "Siuslaw" (since they were near the river) and that the PO
> Department couldn't read the writing--hence Linslaw.
>
> Linda Guynup Dewey
> San Francisco
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