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 toward Neskowin, and finally to a point near the mouth of Neskowin Creek. The Neskowin post office had been discontinued in October, 1905, and that locality was without an office. The name of Marx office was changed to Neskowin on March 30, 1910, and thus the old name of Neskowin was revived.

Marylhurst}}, Clackamas County. The compiler remembers when this locality was called Villa Maria. That was about 1910. In April, 1943, Father Leo J. Linahen was kind enough to look into the history of the name Marylhurst, and he reported as follows: "Since a modest count showed that there were altogether too many Villa Marias in the country, a more distinctive name was sought. A Sister Mary Claudia (Macintosh) is credited with the choice of Marylhurst, or at least with the suggestion of the insertion of the l, for euphony. This was in 1913. The Mary part is easily explained. The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary try always to put some reference to the Virgin in the names of their schools, witness their many St. Mary's Academies. The hurst part is not too mysterious, either. When the property was acquired, the Sisters thought, as did everyone else, that the proposed highway would be below their holdings, along the river. This would have put their buildings among the trees on the heights above the river, on the hurst. The front of the College faces upward toward the new highway, but the older buildings, Christie Home and the Provincial House, face downward toward the river and toward the place where the Sisters thought the highway was going to be built. From the new road, they seem to be not on a height but in a hollow; they thought they were going to be precisely on a hurst."

, Clatsop County. This stream is about ten miles east of Astoria. It was named for Mary Burnside, whose husband was a settler at the place known as Burnside station.

, Benton County. Marys Peak, elevation 4097 feet, is one of the best-known points in western Oregon. It is just southwest of Corvallis. It is the highest peak in the Oregon Coast Range north of Coquille River, but there are a number of mountains in the Coast Range south of Coquille River that are higher. The Indian name is said to have been Chintimini, with the accent on the second syllable, but the compiler does not know the meaning of the word. An editorial in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, September 20, 1935, says that the Indian name Chintimini was not used in earliest pioneer days, but the peak was called Mouse Mountain, a translation of an Indian name. This statement is attributed to Cal Thrasher, a well-known pioneer resident. Some color is given to this story by the fact that in the days of the fur traders, Marys River was called Mouse River or Mice River. See under. The compiler has not found the name Chintimini in early records nor is there any contemporary evidence that the fur traders used the style Saint Marys Peak. It is probable that the name Marys Peak came as the result of the naming of Marys River, a stream which heads north of the mountain. The name Marys River was in use in 1846 and possibly earlier.

, Benton County. In the early days of the fur traders Marys River, which heads north of Marys Peak, was known as Mouse River. In his journal for October 17, 1833, John Work refers to this stream as River de Souris, or Mouse River, and the context seems to show that the name Souris was already established. Duflot de Mofras used the name Riviere des Souris, Mice River, in 1841, and Joel Palmer called the