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CHAPMAN SLOUGH, Harney County. This slough is part of Silvies River south of Burns. It was named for a pioneer settler along its banks, John Chapman.

CHARLESTON, Coos County. Charleston was named for Charles Haskell, who is said to have taken up a claim at the mouth of South Slough in 1853.

CHARLOTTE, Lane County. Charlotte post office was in service so long ago that the compiler knows little about it except its location. And that information is none too reliable. Charlotte post office was established in June, 1880, and was discontinued in April, 1881. Edgar R. Hayfield was the only postmaster. There is no available information about the reason for the name although the chances are it was the given name of Mrs. Hayfield or some other relative. A map dated 1889 shows Charlotte near the southwest corner of township 16 south, range 1 west. This puts it east-southeast of Mohawk.

CHARLTON, Columbia County. This station on the west bank of the Columbia River south of Goble was named for A. D. Charlton of Portland, for many years general passenger agent for the Northern Pacific Railway.

CHASE, Yamhill County. William 0. Chase was the first of five postmasters at Chase, and the office was named in compliment to him. Chase was about seven or eight miles west of McMinnville, in the west part of township 4 south, range 5 west. The office was established March 24, 1896, and operated for about ten years. The exact closing date is not available to the writer. Chaski BAY, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County. This bay is on the south side of Crater Lake, and lies between Phantom Ship and Eagle Point. It was named by Will G. Steel for a minor deity of the Klamath Indians. A. S. Gatschet in his Dictionary of the Klamath Language gives the word as Tchashkai, meaning weasel. The "Weaslet" was a mythical being often alluded to by western Indians, and conjurers frequently mentioned weasels because of their curious freaks and jumps.

CHATFIELD, Wasco County. This siding is on the Union Pacific Railroad near Mosier. The station was named in 1920 for Roy D. Chatheld, a fruit grower in the neighborhood, who was at one time manager of the Mosier Fruit Growers Association. He was the donor of Memaloose Park, now owned by the state. It is east of Mosier.

CHEENEY CREEK, Clackamas County. Cheeney Creek is a tributary of Salmon River south of Welches. This stream was formerly called Sheeny Creek, a name applied by a survey party in the early '70s because of some episode connected with the camp cook, who was a Jewish boy unfamiliar with the woods. Many years later the Forest Service changed the name to Cheeney.

CHEHALEM, Yamhill County. Chehalem was one of the earliest post offices in Yamhill County. It was established March 14, 1851, the same day as Lafayette and North Yam Hill offices. The only earlier office in the county was Yam Hill Falls, established January 8, 1850. Chehalem post office was discontinued January 6, 1852. Daniel Dodge Bayley was the first postmaster at Chehalem. Bayley was born in Vermont in 1801, and he and his family were among those who came to Oregon in 1845 by the Meek Cutoff. The Bayleys arrived in the Chehalem Valley in September, 1845, and settled on a place near what is now Newberg. The