Page:Oregon Geographic Names, third edition.djvu/557



GustaX HOLFIELD CREEK River at Reedsho came to the Um previously for a short time with the name Columbia. Gosa was also postmaster of the Columbia office.

SCHAFF, Marion County. This is a railroad station two miles south of Aumsville. It was named for Walter Schaff who owned the land on which the station was built.

SCOGGIN CREEK, Washington County. Scoggin Creek was named for Gustavus Scoggin, a pioneer settler.

SCHOLFIELD CREEK, Douglas County. This is an important tributtary of the Umpqua River at Reedsport. It was named for Socrates Scholfield, a member of the party that came to the Umpqua River in 1850 in the schooner Samuel Roberts, and founded Umpqua City. He was the son of Nathan Scholfield of Norwich, Conn. There is a discrepancy in the way the name is spelled by Bancroft in his History of Oregon, volume II, page 176, and in OHQ, volume XVII, page 341. Bancroft uses the form Schofield, but Scholfield himself uses the style with a second "l." Scholfield family papers and letters at the Oregon State Library all confirm the spelling here used. Nathan Scholfield was one of the leaders of the party, and it is not clear why the stream was named for the son rather than the father, although Bancroft says such was the case. Possibly some incident of the exploration connected the name of the younger man with the stream. Attention is called to the fact that there is a discrepancy in the name of the schooner, the form William Roberts sometimes being used. However, the contemporaneous newspaper accounts, marine records, and George Davidson of the U. S. Coast Survey all use the form Samuel Roberts, and it may be assumed that that style is correct.

SCHOLLS, Washington County. Scholls, Scholls Ferry and Scholls Ferry Road are all well-known geographic names in the Tualatin Valley. These features were named for Peter Scholls, a pioneer of 1847, who took up a donation claim nearby. In early days Scholls Ferry was one of the important crossings of the Tualatin River. Peter Scholl was born in Kentucky October 20, 1809. He was related to the family of Daniel Boone. He died in Portland in November, 1872. For information about Peter Scholl, see OPA Transactions, 1887, page 80. Scholls Ferry post office was established September 12, 1871, with J. R. Bennett first postmaster. The name was changed to Scholls on February 2, 1895, and the office was discontinued in November, 1905.

SCHOONER CREEK, Lincoln County. Schooner Creek is a well-known stream that flows into Siletz Bay just south of Taft. In 1945 Andrew L. Porter of Newport told the compiler that the stream was named for a schooner that came in over Siletz Bar about 1890 and ran aground on the rocks on the east side of the bay just south of the creek. Mr. Porter reported that some of the ship's ribs were still showing above the sand at low tide. Mr. Porter also said that he understood that about 1894 the ship's bell was taken to Grand Ronde and used at the Indian school.

SCHOONER CREEK, Lincoln County. This paragraph refers to a stream called Schooner Creek that flows into Pacific Ocean about a mile north of Yaquina Head. The stream was named for a small schooner that came ashore on the beach near the creek about 1890. The writer has not been able to identify this vessel and little is known of her except that she was about 50 feet long. The schooner was hauled above high tide by means of oxen and tackle and in 1944 it was reported that some of her remains