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FARLEY, Hood River County. This station, east of Cascade Locks, was formerly known as Herman for Herman Creek nearby. See under that heading. The name caused confusion with Sherman, a station east of The Dalles, and Farley was substituted in honor of a local resident.

FARM CREEK, Clackamas County. Farm Creek lies in township 7 south, range 6 east. It was named by Joe Davis, Jim Russell, Andy Wyland and Joe Dickey, who prospected and mined in that part of the county in the '80s. They found good horse feed at the head of Farm Creek and left their stock there to pasture, calling the place The Farm.

FARMINGTON, Washington County. Farmington, a place near Tualatin River eight or nine miles southwest of Beaverton, bears a descriptive name. The post office was established November 24, 1884, with Isaac B. Everson first of five postmasters. The office was closed December 23, 1904, with papers to Hillsboro. The locality is a well-known point on a secondary highway extending from Beaverton.

FASHION REEF, Multnomah County. Fashion Reef is in the Columbia River a little downstream from Multnomah Falls. It was probably named for the river steamer Fashion. This boat, the first on the middle river, was built with the name James P. Flint in 1851 by the Bradfords and Van Bergen at the Cascades. She was sunk in September, 1852, ap. parently on what is now known as Fashion Reef. She was raised in 1853 and taken to Vancouver, where she was renamed the Fashion and put back in service. See Wright's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, pages 35 and 45. Whether the reef was named as the result of the grounding in 1852, or some later trouble, the compiler does not know, but thinks the first alternative the more probable.

FAUBION, Clackamas County. This post office was established late in 1925 and was named for a local family. The office is half a mile southeast of Zigzag ranger station, on the Mount Hood Loop Highway. W. J. Faubion was the first postmaster. He died in 1938.

FAWCETT CREEK, Tillamook County. This stream southeast of Tillamook was named for W. H. Fawcett, who took up a homestead nearby. His land office number is 997.

FELLERS, Marion County. This station south of Donald was named for the family of a pioneer settler on French Prairie, Francis Feller.

FENCE CREEK, Wallowa County. Fence Creek flows from the west into Imnaha River about six miles north of Imnaha. The stream takes its name from some stone fences built in the vicinity in very early days by A. C. Smith, one of the first white settlers in the Wallowa Valley. A news story about the activities of A. C. Smith appears in the Enterprise Chieftain for October 3, 1940. For biography of A. C. Smith see History of Union and Wallowa Counties, page 577.

FENNELL LAKE, Linn County. This small intermittent pond southeast of Jefferson was named for J. Fennell, an early settler. The spelling Fennel is wrong.

FERGUSON CREEK, Lane County. This stream flows into Long Tom River south of Monroe. It was named for a pioneer family. See OHQ, volume V, page 136.

FERN, Benton County. Fern post office was in operation from October, 1899, until September, 1903, with Edward L. Davis postmaster.