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Gaston's Centennial History of Oregon, volume II, page 12. The compiler does not know why the post office name was spelled differently from the doctor's name.

HESS CREEK, Yamhill County. This stream is at Newberg. It was named for a pioneer settler, who operated a mill nearby. The forms Hess Branch, Hess Mill Creek, Joseph Hess Mill Branch and Mill Creek are incorrect. The government has officially adopted the name Hess Creek as reflecting the general local use. Alexander Henry visited the vicinity of Hess Creek on January 24, 1814. See OHQ, volume

XXV, pages 308-11.

HEWETT BOULEVARD, Multnomah County. Hewett Boulevard is west of Council Crest, and connects Green Hills with Sylvan. It was named for Henry Hewett, a pioneer grain merchant and insurance man of Portland. Mr. Hewett was born at Hunters Hill, near Gateshead, County Durham, England, January 15, 1847. He came to the Pacific Coast about 1864, and settled in Portland in 1870, and in the following year shipped the first cargo of wheat that ever went from Portland to the United Kingdom. He later extended his activities to include marine insurance, and was for many years Lloyd's agent in Portland. He lived for a time at Twentieth and Glisan streets in Portland, where the Couch School now stands, and personally planted many of the shrubs now standing in the school yard. In 1888 he moved to the hills west of Council Crest and developed a country place, setting out many shrubs and trees brought from abroad. In the later years of his life he devoted himself entirely to the insurance business. He possessed a great fund of information about the marine history of the Pacific Coast. He died at his home on Green Hills February 16, 1915.

HICKMAN LAKE, Clackamas County. This lake and other geographic features in the northeast corner of the county were named for one Hickman, a guard in the early days of the government forest organization.

HIDDENSPRINGS, Harney County. Hiddensprings post office was established June 21, 1916, with Mary E. O'Malley postmaster. The name is descriptive of a spring near what is known as Clover Swale, a range district on the desert about twenty miles south of Harney Lake. High CAMP, Clackamas County. This point is near North Fork Molalla River. Dee Wright, a native of Molalla, told the compiler that the camp was originally established by the Ogle family, pioneers of the Molalla Valley, and they gave the camp its descriptive name. High DESERT, Deschutes and Lake counties. Early maps bear such legends as Great Sandy Desert and Rolling Sage Plains, descriptive of that part of Oregon which is traversed by the Central Oregon Highway near the southeast corner of Deschutes County. Today the name High Desert is universally used, in contradiction to the Low Desert farther south. The line of demarcation of the two deserts is not well defined, and the difference in elevation does not amount to a thousand feet.

HIGHLAND, Clackamas County. The Highland district is about eight or ten miles southeast of Oregon City, and Highland Butte, elevation 1728 feet, is within the area. Godfried Wallace, the first postmaster at Highland, is said to have originated the name, but whether first applied to the butte or the area, is unknown to the writer. Highland post office was established February 21, 1870, with Wallace first postmaster. The office was in service until after the turn of the century, but the