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 chool was chartered 853. The name is the references give Franz ile reall. The school was chartered with the name Rickreall, by the territorial legislature in December, 1853. The name is given Ricrall in an advertisement in the Oregonian, February 7, 1852. The references given above indicate that there was a difference of opinion about the name of the stream in the early days of pioneer settlement. It seems to the writer that different localities near the stream might have had different names, and while La Creole was used to refer to the creek near Dallas, Rickreall might have been an Indian name for another place on its banks. This would explain some of the discrepancies. The USBGN has adopted the name Rickreall Creek, and Rickreall is the name of the post office. Rickreal post office was established June 30, 1851, with Nathaniel Ford postmaster, but was discontinued April 11, 1857. The office was reestablished June 19, 1866, with the spelling Rickreall and with Colonel Ford again postmaster. It has been in continuous operation since it was reestablished. The controversy over the name Rickreall was particularly acute during the summer of 1916. Letters on the subject were printed in the Oregonian July 23, 26, 30, August 4, 5, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, September 10, October 2 and 8, 1916. During the Civil War and for some time thereafter Rickreall village was frequently referred to as Dixie because of Southern sentiment in the community. The name Dixie was used colloquially for several decades, but it was never the name of the post office. Riddle, Douglas County. Riddle is a town on the Siskiyou line of the Southern Pacific, south of Roseburg. It was named for William H. Riddle, who came to Oregon from Springfield, Illinois, in 1851, and settled near the present site of the town. The old form Riddles is wrong. For information about the Riddle family, see the Oregonian, March 29, 1925. Riddle CREEK, Harney County. This creek and Riddle Mountain, just to the north, were named for Stilley Riddle, an early settler. The mountain is about ten miles southeast of Malheur Lake. Riddle Mountain has an elevation of 6356 feet, according to the USC&GS. The highest point is near the east end. T. S. Riddle was a member of a pioneer family of Oregon. For his biography, see Walling's History of Southern Oregon, page 539. Ridge, Umatilla County. Ridge post office was given a name descriptive of its situation which was about a dozen miles southwest of Pilot Rock. The ridge was the watershed between the Birch Creek and Butter Creek drainages, and there was sufficient local timber to provide business for a sawmill and for an output of poles and posts. Ridge post office was established October 5, 1882, and was in service until May 15, 1906. William R. Stansell was the first postmaster.

RIDGEWAY, W'asco County. Ridgeway post office was established March 3, 1892, with Mary S. Cooke first postmaster. The othice was finally closed October 31, 1905, with papers to Shaniko. The locality called Ridgeway was west of Antelope in the southeast part of the county. In May, 1946, Judge Fred W. Wilson of The Dalles wrote the compiler in part as follows: "Mrs. D. V. Bolton, wife of our county clerk, was the daughter of H. C. Rooper and raised right in the Ridgeway country. She remembers all about it. When she was a girl, the stagecoaches going to Canyon City on the one hand and to Prineville on the other used one road from The Dalles to Bakeoven. Then at Bakeoven