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that name was adopted. It was about 1860-61 that Albert Kelly suggested the name Mount Zion for what is now called Green Hills. About the time mentioned Patton road was opened up to the pass in the hills and a small school was built at the southeast corner of what became the main intersection. This little school was just about the same location as the Green Hills service station in operation at this writing (1946). The school house provided a meeting place for local residents and it was on this account that Kelly called the locality Mount Zion because of his sentimental interest in the Mount Zion meeting house in Kentucky. The selection was a little odd from a geographic point of view because Kelly gave the name Mount Zion to a pass in the hills and not to one of the summits. For many years the locality now called Sylvan was known as Zion Town. This name was originated by Nathan B. Jones. It is possible that the name Zion Town was applied because the place was so near Mount Zion School and crossroads. There was no town at Mount Zion.

GREEN PETER, Linn County. For the meaning of the word peter when used to describe a rocky summit, see under Bald PETER. Green Peter is situated northeast of Sweet Home and is the site of a forest lookout. Some maps and records refer to this point as Bald Peter, but the Linn County Fire Patrol has informed the writer that Bald Peter is about a mile north-northeast of Green Peter,

GREEN Point, Columbia County. Broughton, of Vancouver's expedition, camped at Green Point on October 26, 1792, and called it Point Sheriff, presumably after John Sheriff, master's mate of the Chatham.

GREEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN, Jackson County. Named because of the perennial verdure around the springs near the summit of this mountain on the highway between Ashland and Klamath Falls. The highway was for many years known as the Green Springs Mountain Road. The form Green Spring is wrong.

GREEN VALLEY, Douglas County. This valley is northwest of Oakland. It seems to have been named because of its appearance. For the early history of the valley see Walling's History of Southern Oregon, page 439.

GREENBACK, Josephine County. The locality called Greenback in the northeast part of the county was named for the Greenback mine, but the writer does not know the reason the mine was named unless it was expected that it would produce plenty of money. Generally miners were more interested in metallic money than that of the folding type. Greenback post office was established in August, 1902, with Carey W. Thompson first postmaster. The office operated until June, 1908. The place is a couple of miles north of Grave Creek and about four miles airline east of the Pacific Highway.

GREENBERRY, Benton County. Greenberry is a station south of Corvallis. It bears the given names of Green Berry Smith, a pioneer of 1845, who settled in Benton County in 1846, and who for a time lived on his farm near this station. Smith was generally called Greenberry, despite the fact that he had two given names. For further information, see under Smith Hill in this book.

GREENBURG, Washington County. This station north of Tigard was named by the officials of the Oregon Electric Railway Company for a local resident, and not because of any remarkable verdure. His family name was Greenburg.

GREENHORN, Baker and Grant counties. The Greenhorn mining