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about two miles south of Cape Lookout and not far from Sand Lake. It was named for Meriwether Lewis in 1925 by G. H. Oberteuffer, scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, Portland area.

CAMP NAMANU, Clackamas County. The Camp Fire Girls of Portland and vicinity have a summer camp a little northwest of Bull Run, on Sandy River just below the mouth of Bull Run River. The name of this place and its summer post office is Camp Namanu. Namanu is said to be an Indian word meaning beaver, and that animal was once plentiful in the locality. The compiler does not know from what Indian language namanu is taken. The Chinook jargon word for beaver is ee-na. Namanu may be a variation of the Chinook jargon word ne-nam-ooks, meaning land otter. Camp Namanu post office was established January 7, 1939, by change of name from Bullrun. Elaine S. Gorman was first postmaster.

CAMP POLK, Deschutes County. Camp Polk is about three miles northeast of Sisters on the west bank of Squaw Creek, and there is now little to show that it was once a military post. The camp was established in 1865 at the time of Indian uprisings in eastern Oregon. Captain Charles LaFollette was commanding officer of Company A of the First Oregon Volunteer Infantry and a resident of Polk County. His company was stationed at this camp and he named the place in honor of his home county, Some cabins were built and the troops spent the winter of 1865-66 at the camp and were mustered out in 1866. About 1870 Samuel M. W. Hindman settled near the camp and for a time ran the post office. Mrs. Nellie M. Miller, long a resident of Sisters, died in July, 1941, and left a substantial sum to be used in improving and maintaining the Camp Polk cemetery, also known as the Hindman cemetery. The locality of Camp Polk is shown on the USGS map of the Three Sisters quadrangle. A post office with the name Camp Polk was established in March, 1875, with Samuel M. W. Hindman postmaster. In July, 1888, the office was moved about three miles southwest to the community of Sisters and the name was changed to agree with the new locality.

CAMP RUSSELL, Marion County, Oregon. When the first Oregon Volunteer Infantry was organized in 1864-65, at least four companies appear to have been mustered in at a place called Camp Russell, but the Report of the Adjutant General, 1865-66, fails to locate the camp. However, the reminiscences of William M. Hilleary of F Company, on file at the Oregon Historical Society, say that the camp was on the Fair Grounds at Salem. Among other things, Hilleary says: "One wing of the old pavilion was fitted up for squad room, in which were our bunks. It was our sitting room,-parlor, bedroom, hall, all in one. Another wing of the pavilion was occupied by the kitchen and culinary department, which was dubbed 'Hotel de Russle' for it was here that we, with an eye on the main chance, 'rustled' for our grub." This camp was named in honor of Major-General David Allen Russell, who was killed at the battle of Opequan, Virginia, Sepember 19, 1864. Russell had served in Oregon and was a popular soldier and his death occurred about the time the camp was established. The order naming the camp is in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, volume L. part II, page 1086.

CAMP SHERMAN, Jefferson County. This post office is on the Me. tolius River about two miles north of its source. It was named because of the fact that a number of families from Sherman County spent their summer vacations at this camp.