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of Sullivan Gulch, which was called the East Side Station. Later the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific had a station near this point called East Portland, but it was a separate operating point from either the original East Portland or East Morrison Street.

EASTSIDE, Coos County. This is a descriptive name, because the community is on the east side of Coos Bay. This place was at one time the terminal of the old Coos Bay Military Wagon Road. It was originally called East Marshfield, but about 1908 the name was changed to the present style. Echo, Umatilla County. This place was named for Echo Koontz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Koontz. The community was started about 1880, and the Koontz family was among the first to settle there. Echo is near the site of Fort Henrietta, so called for Mrs. Henrietta Haller, wife of Major Granville 0. Haller, U. S. A., who commanded troops in early Indian campaigns. When the post office at Echo was established, Major Lee Moorehouse, of Pendleton, tried to have the name Henrietta adopted, but as Koontz was interested in the town, his daughter's name was selected. James H. Koontz was born in Ohio in 1830 and came to Oregon in 1862, settling at Umatilla in 1863. Echo Koontz was born at Umatilla Landing, and later was Mrs. Charles H. Miller. Koontz died in 1912. For additional information about the locality of Echo, once known as Brasfeld Ferry, see story by Fred Lockley in Oregon Journal, August 30, 1931. In 1861-62 Thomas A. Brasfield ran a stage station called The Crossing along with the ferry and kept the travel.

ECKLEY, Curry County. Eckley is a place at the east edge of the county near North Fork Sixes River on the old mountain road from Myrtle Point southwest to Port Orford. The post office has had three different names. A post office called New Castle was established in this locality on December 19, 1879, with Mrs. Charlotte Guerin first postmaster. The name was changed to Tell Tale on May 21, 1883 and to Eckley on June 29, 1883. This office was in operation until December 15, 1916, when it was closed out to Myrtle Point. A study of the Guerin family history as printed in Dodge's Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, indicated that Mrs. Guerin's daughter-in-law, Mrs. George H. Guerin, was a native of Wingate, a place near Newcastle-on-Tyne in the north of England. It seems more than probable to the compiler that the name New Castle for the Curry County post office was suggested by Mrs. George Guerin, or by somebody in the family in her compliment. That there was a difference in the spelling is not a great objection to this theory. So much for New Castle. The name Eckley for this post office came from Mrs. Guerin's grandson, Eckley Guerin, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Guerin. Eckley Guerin was born in August, 1882, and the name Eckley was applied to the post office June 29, 1883.

ECKMAN SLOUGH, Lincoln County. Eckman Slough and Eckman Creek are south of Alsea Bay. The postmaster at Waldport wrote the compiler in 1927 that these two streams were named many years ago for a Scandinavian settler who lived nearby.

ECOLA POINT, Clatsop County. The name Ecola has had an interesting peregrination since it was first applied to what is now known as Elk Creek by Captain William Clark on January 8, 1806. He called the stream Ecola, or Whale Creek, but both of these names fell into disuse.