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was descriptive and had its origin in the Peninsular Addition and some additions to that addition. The writer does not know when Peninsular post office was closed, but it is shown as active on the post route map of 1900. The addition was named because it was on the peninsula between Columbia and Willamette rivers. The plat was filed in March, 1889.

PENN, Lane County. Penn was the railroad station for McGlynn post office. See under that name. The name Penn was used for the railroad station because of the Penn Timber Company, which was operating nearby.

PENOLA, Grant County. A post route map dated 1880 shows a post office with the name Penola at a point sixteen miles northeast of Prairie City on the road to Sumpter. Other postal records show that the Penola post office was established January 27, 1876, and was discontinued April 19, 1878. John R. Roy was the only postmaster. The compiler has been quite unable to get information about the origin of the name or word Penola. It does not appear in any available reference works except that it is used for a post office in Virginia. Correspondence with the postmaster in Virginia has failed to produce any explanations of the name.

PEORIA, Linn County. This name came from Peoria, Illinois. The village of Peoria is below the mouth of Lake Creek, on Willamette River, 15 miles southwest of Albany and eight miles northwest of Halsey. The first settlement was by H. A. McCartney, in 1851. In 1875 the place contained four grain warehouses on the river bank, having a capacity of 60,000 bushels of wheat. There were 30,000 bushels in the warehouses. The school contained 60 pupils. The village was a shipping point for considerable business until the Oregon and California Railroad drew the business to Halsey and Shedd. See Material Resources of Linn County, by A. S. Mercer, 1875, page 53. A post office called Burlington was established in this locality on November 17, 1855, with William M. McCorkle postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Peoria on November 7, 1857.

PERDUE, Douglas County. Perdue post office was named for John Perdue, Sr., its first postmaster. The office was first situated on South Umpqua River at the mouth of Elk Creek, and was called Elk Creek. John Perdue, Sr. became postmaster of the Elk Creek office on June 11, 1884, and on the following August 22, the name of the office was changed to Perdue. About this time the office was moved down South Umpqua River about six miles, but the writer cannot determine just when this move was made. For nearly forty years Perdue post office continued to serve the territory, until it was closed rather abruptly on August 31, 1920, because Amos O. Buker, then postmaster, ran afoul of postal regulations prohibiting dual government employment. Buker took on the job of local census enumerator and the government quickly put a stop to his postal activities. The locality was without a post office for three years, until Milo post office was established May 13, 1923, with Mrs. Cora E. Buker first postmaster. See under Milo. Perdue was about half way between Days Creek and Tiller.

PERHAM, Crook County. On August 9, 1946, Remey M. Cox, editor of the Prineville Central Oregonian, wrote the compiler: "Gardner Perry, for many years stage driver on the Prineville-Paulina run, reports he lived near Bear Creek buttes while Perham post office was open. The place was named for Ad Perham, who ran sheep on Bear Creek buttes.