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Coquille River a few miles northeast of Myrtle Point. The name came from the natural ford in the stream. Gravel Ford post office was established in April, 1878, with Solomon J. McCloskey first postmaster. It was finally discontinued April 30, 1934, with mail to Myrtle Point. The name in two words is the style used in post office records available to the writer, but the form Gravelford is used on the post route map of 1900 and on the USGS atlas sheet for the Coquille quadrangle.

GRAVEYARD POINT, Curry County. This point is a high headland southwest of the town of Port Orford extending southeastward into the harbor. In February, 1944, Louis L. Knapp of Port Orford wrote the compiler: "During the time the military garrison was maintained at Port Orford, two soldiers were buried on this point. Thereafter the oldtimers always spoke of the headland as Graveyard Point and it is generally known and referred to as such. No other burials have ever been made there."

GRAY, Curry County. Gray post office was in service from November, 1884, to November, 1887, with Loftin Gray first and only postmaster. The office was obviously named for him. In May, 1948, Douglas Cooley of Brookings wrote that this office was situated on Gray Flat, two miles north of Brookings.

GRAY, Linn County. This is a station on the Oregon Electric Railway southwest of Albany. It was named for Carl R. Gray, formerly president of the Oregon Electric and other roads, and later president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company at Omaha.

GRAY BUTTE, Jefferson County. There is a story, unconfirmed, that this butte was named for Dr. Asa Gray, the botanist, but residents nearby all say that the name is due to the characteristic color.

GRAY EAGLE BAR, Marion County. Gray Eagle Bar is on the east bank of Willamette River about three miles southwest of Salem. It received its name from the fact that the river steamer, Gray Eagle, was once stuck on this gravel bar for several days.

GREEN BASIN, Marion County. The post office Green Basin, situated on North Santiam River about two miles east of Niagara, was named for a fine stand of green timber north of the office and in the vicinity of Rocky Top. A saw mill was operated near the post office. Green Basin post office was established October 3, 1890, with John D. Montgomery first of four postmasters. The office was closed May 1, 1896, with papers to Niagara.

GREEN Hills, Multnomah County. Green Hills, the name of a residence district in the southwest part of Portland, was suggested by Henry Hewett when his own and neighboring property was platted in 1913. The style Greenhills is not that of the official plat and was not the form suggested by Mr. Hewett. The name Green Hills has extended its growth eastward until it now includes the Green Hills crossroads. The locality of the crossroads was known as Mount Zion in early days. According to Mrs. Hildegarde Plummer Wither, for many years a resident on Dosch Road, the name Mount Zion was applied by her grandfather, Albert Kelly, a son of Samuel Kelly of Kentucky, and brother of Oregon's well-known pioneer, Clinton Kelly, The Kelly family lived near the Mount Zion meeting house in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and had a sentimental attachment to the biblical name. In 1854 the Rev. Clinton Kelly suggested the name Mount Zion for what is now known as Mount Tabor in east Portland but his son Plympton Kelly was in favor of Mount Tabor and