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1916, with Florence M. Bennett first postmaster. The office was closed December 31, 1919. The logging railroad was in operation as early as about 1913 and it is said that the place was first called Evergreen, but that name could not be used for a post office because of duplication with another Evergreen, Oregon. There must have been some other reason for not continuing the name Evergreen, as there was no other post office with that name in Oregon during the period in question. New Bridge, Baker County. New Bridge post office was originally on the banks of Eagle Creek near where an important pioneer bridge was built across the stream. The post office was established on July 22, 1878. Joseph Gale was the first postmaster. For information about him see under Gales CREEK. New Bridge post office was burned about 1880. The post office is not now in its original location. New Era, Clackamas County. There are two stories about how this community got its name. Several persons have told the writer that the naming came about as the result of the construction of the railroad as far as the mouth of Parrott Creek, which made it possible for Willamette River boats to stop there and deliver produce. This was hailed as a new era in river transportation as boats then would not have to go to the falls below at Oregon City. This story has the earmarks of truth, but on the other hand it should be said that one correspondent has informed the compiler that a local family were spiritualists and devoted to a publication called the New Era and named the place on that account. New PINE CREEK, Lake County. This is said to be the oldest town in Lake County. It was originally intended to name the place Pine Creek because of a nearby stream, but postal authorities objected to this because of duplication, so the name New Pine Creek was adopted. The post office was established December 8, 1876, with S. A. Hamersley first postmaster.

NEWBERG, Yamhill County. C. B. Wilson, postmaster at Newberg, Oregon, in 1926, informed the writer that Newberg was named November 5, 1869, by Sebastian Brutscher who was the first postmaster. Brutscher formerly lived in Germany at a place called Neuberg and adopted for the new office the English translation of the name of his former home. Modern atlases show a Neuberg in Styria, Austria, but none in Germany.

NEWBERN, Linn County. Newbern was the name of a short-lived post office, established June 18, 1874, and closed on September 1 of the same year. The General Land Office map of Oregon of 1876 shows the place near the west edge of township 11 south, range 2 west, on the old road from Albany southeast toward Lebanon. The office was about six miles southeast of Albany and a mile or so north-northwest of what was later known as Tallman. The compiler has not been able to get the significance of the name Newbern, which is spelled Newburn on the map mentioned above. Benjamin N. Hardman was postmaster at the place. Newbern sounds like a family name and it may be represented by the postmaster's middle initial, though this is no more than a surmise.

NEWBERRY CRATER, Deschutes County. Nature narrowly missed giving Oregon two crater lakes almost equal in size and beauty, but like many other attempts to improve upon a masterpiece, this one failed. Twenty-five miles south of Bend lies Newberry Crater, a result of vulcanism much more recent than the caldera occupied by Crater Lake. Newberry Crater is situated in the summit of the isolated Paulina Mountains W