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Low GAP CREEK, Josephine County. This stream is in the extreme southeast corner of the county. It was named because it heads in a low pass between Lake and Whisky peaks. The name Whisky Creek is incorrect.

LOWELL, Lane County. Amos D. Hyland, who came from Lowell, Maine, in the fifties, established the community and helped secure a post office, of which he was once postmaster. He named the place for his former home. He was a successful stock-raiser, and, the writer is informed, was an energetic and hard-working man. He brought up a family of fourteen children! The first post office for this locality was called Cannon. It was established August 9, 1880, with C. E. Byers postmaster. The name was changed to Lowell February 19, 1883.

LOWELL CREEK, Lane County. This stream flows into Christy Creek northeast of Oakridge. According to Mrs. Lina A. Flock of Oakridge, the creek was named for E. D. Lowell, who at one time pastured his stock in the neighborhood.

LOWER BRIDGE, Deschutes County. This name is purely descriptive and originated at the time when the bridge was down stream from Tetherow bridge, which was the other important bridge in the upper Deschutes country. There was a post office of the same name not far from the bridge. This bridge is six miles west of Terrebonne, and near its western end is the well-known diatomite deposit.

LOWER KLAMATH LAKE, Klamath County. This is the correct name of the smaller of the two Klamath lakes, not Little Klamath Lake. Lower Klamath Lake is on the boundary between Oregon and California, and part of it is in California. Its outlet is Klamath Strait, which connects it with Klamath River. Klamath Strait formerly flowed either way, depending on the stage of water in Lower Klamath Lake, but this characteristic has apparently been interfered with by the construction of a railroad embankment. For information about the origin of the name, see under

KLAMATH COUNTY. The Klamath Indian name for Lower Klamath Lake is Aka-ushkni E-ush, the latter word meaning lake. Attempts at reclamation have caused much variation in the size of Lower Klamath Lake in recent years. Lower LAND CREEK, Coos County. This creek, together with Upper Land Creek nearby, was named for T. C. Land, a pioneer settler on South Fork Coquille River.

LOWERSODA, Linn County. A post office with the name Lower Soda was established in the vicinity of what is now Cascadia on August 27, 1892, with John Atkinson postmaster. The office was discontinued May 21, 1894, but was reestablished in about two weeks with the name Lowersoda and with Atkinson continuing as postmaster. The office was finally closed April 21, 1899, and the business transferred to Cascadia office which had been established on May 12, 1898. Lowersoda which was very close to Cascadia was at the old roadhouse of William R. Finley. According to William R. Mealey, of Foster, who wrote in September, 1946, this old roadhouse was built in the late '60s or early '70s. The soda springs at Cascadia were at one time known as Lower Soda springs in contradistinction to the Upper Soda springs about ten or twelve miles further east.

LUCKIAMUTE, Polk County. The Luckiamute River has given its name to two places in the Willamette Valley, a post office and a railroad