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June 10, 1891, with Lavinna E. Yeager first postmaster. John Lyndon Marsh became postmaster February 15, 1902, and the office was closed to Eugene February 20, 1904. Fairmount is one of those pleasant and popular descriptive names that can be and have been used without overworking the imagination. It has been applied to almost any sort of rise in ground, sometimes but a few feet higher than the surrounding land. The popularity of the name is attested by the fact that in 1945 there were well over a dozen post offices in the United States with the word Fairmount in some form, The Fairmount in Lane County was just east of Eugene, and during the time that John L. Marsh had the office it was what was in 1947, 1873 Franklin Boulevard, at the intersection of Villard (extended), within the present city limits of Eugene and a short distance east of the University of Oregon. The building was still standing in March, 1947, on the north side of Franklin Boulevard, which is the Pacific Highway.

FAIRVIEW, Coos County. Fairview is a locality or community on North Fork Coquille River about six miles northeast of Coquille. It does not now have a post office. The name is said to be descriptive. Fairview post office was established for the first time on May 7, 1873, with Francis Braden first postmaster. It was closed August 15, 1913. It was because of the Fairview post office in Coos County that an office of the same name could not be established in Multnomah County to handle the mail at Fairview railroad station just west of Troutdale. A distinct name was necessary for the Multnomah County situation, and Cleone was chosen, though the railroad continued to use the name Fairview for its station. After Fairview office in Coos County was closed, the name of Cleone office in Multnomah County was changed to Fairview in 1914.

FAIRVIEW, Multnomah County. The locality, Fairview, west of Troutdale, on the Columbia River, has also been known as Cleone. Fairview was adopted, in 1855, as the name of a Methodist Sunday school, organized in 1853. The late Stephen Roberts proposed the name, and it was adopted in preference to Mount Pisgah and Mount Pleasant. After the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's line was built, about 1882, and a station was established, named Fairview, a confusion in mail matters ensued because an older Fairview existed in Coos County, Oregon. Milton Hosford proposed Cleone, which was accepted as the name of the post office, but the railroad adhered to the old station name Fairview. Cleone post office was established March 27, 1883, with Hosford postmaster. Differences over the name of the place were composed, probably due to the abandonment of the Coos County office of Fairview, and on January 14, 1914, the name of the office of Cleone was changed to Fairview. In 1927 Milton W. Smith of Portland told the compiler that it was his opinion that the community of Fairview was named in the early '80s by Mrs. Hannah M. Smith, who platted the townsite. Mrs. Smith was the widow of Hiram (Redshirt) Smith. This does not agree with the data given above, which is from Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume II, page 313. A news item in the Oregonian, September 10, 1901, page 9, says the name Fairview had been in use about 45 years, and this seems to substantiate the Scott version. It is probable that Mrs. Smith merely adopted the old name for her town.

FALCON Rock, Tillamook County. Falcon Rock, elevation 15 feet, is in the Pacific Ocean a little less than a mile westward of Cape Falcon.