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29, 1877, with Leander Cruzan as first postmaster. The name of the office was adapted from Cruzan's first name. Later the spelling was changed to Leaburg, but the compiler cannot tell when. The name was changed to Deerhorn on May 25, 1907, and that style was used until the office was closed in September, 1913. It seems probable that the change to Deerhorn also included a change of location, because a new Leaburg office was established September 20, 1907.

LEANDER, Linn County. This station is just east of Albany on the Oregon Electric Railway. C. H, Stewart of Albany told the compiler in 1927 that it was named for Leander C. Burkhart, a pioneer of 1846. The station is on the Burkhart donation land claim.

LEAP, Wallowa County. Leap is a place north of Enterprise in section 8, township 1 north, range 44 east. According to J. H. Horner of Enterprise it was first planned to call this community Fairview, but postal authorities would not accept that name because of duplication. Mrs. F. W. Heskett suggested that the office be named Leap because it was leap year. That name was accepted, and the office was established at the Heskett house in April, 1892. Ben Weathers carried the mail in from Wallowa to Leap on horseback. Leap has not been a post office for some years prior to 1944.

LEBANON, Linn County. Lebanon was first called Kees Precinct for Morgan and Jacob Kees, who came there in 1848. Jeremiah Ralston had the site surveyed and recorded in 1851 and adopted the name Lebanon after Mount Lebanon in Syria. The first post office in the vicinity, Santyam, was established March 14, 1851, with Russel T. Hill postmaster. The name was changed to Washington Butte July 30, 1852, with John W. Bell as the new postmaster. At the time the change was made, the old name, was put down as Santiam and not Santyam. Leland H. Wakefield became postmaster on March 29, 1855. Later the post office name was changed to Lebanon to agree with the townsite. Early post office lists show that a Lebanon post office was established on June 5, 1851, with Jno. S. Hunt postmaster. This place was about twelve miles east of Salem, in Marion County, and had nothing to do with Lebanon in Linn County. The Marion County office Lebanon was discontinued in June, 1858. LE CONTE CRATER, Deschutes and Lane counties. This crater is on the summit of the Cascade Range south of the South Sister. Dr. E. T. Hodge of the University of Oregon named it for Professor Joseph Le Conte, of the University of California, famous Pacific Coast scientist. Le Conte Crater is just southwest of Rock Mesa and has an elevation of 6574 feet.

LEE, Coos County. Lee post office was established in 1888. William P. Mast was the first postmaster and was a native of North Carolina. He named the office for the great Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee. Lee was not a post office in 1929.

LEEDS, Jackson County. Leeds post office, about ten miles up Rogue River from Trail, was named for W. H. Leeds, a newspaper publisher of Ashland and onetime state printer for Oregon, by A. J. Florey, for many years postmaster at Eagle Point. Florey was postmaster at Eagle Point in April, 1890, when Leeds post office was established with Frank M. Manning first postmaster. For information about W. H. Leeds, see Turnbull's History of Oregon Newspapers, page 260.