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 erty on Cannon Beach. Mark Warren chose the name Tolovana Park for his tract, because he fancied the sound of the word as used in Alaska.

TOMAHAWK ISLAND, Multnomah County. This name was originally given by Lewis and Clark to a small island between what is now known as Hayden Island and the north shore of the Columbia River. The name was the result of an incident that took place on November 4, 1805, when William Clark's tomahawk pipe was stolen. The incident is mentioned several times in Thwaites' Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. While the theft took place on the mainland, a small island was a silent witness and received its name on that account. See atlas volume, plate 34. Eventually the island disappeared. After the construction of the interstate bridge between Portland and Vancouver another island gradually emerged from the river not far from the original Tomahawk Island. In 1927 a group of students from the Catlin school in Portland petitioned the USBGN to attach the name Tomahawk Island to the new island in the Columbia River, which occupies a position between Ryan Point and Hayden Island. The USBGN made the requested decision on April 6, 1927, and thus perpetuated the old name.

TOMBSTONE GAP, Jackson County. Tombstone Gap is at the north edge of the county, about a mile south of Richter Mountain. It is a pass through the watershed between the Umpqua and Rogue river drainages. It was named for an outcrop of gray rock nearby, which in a small degree simulates a gravestone.

TOMBSTONE LAKE, Union County. Tombstone Lake, in township 5 south, range 43 east, was not named because of a tombstone. In January, 1944, J. F. Irwin, for many years connected with the Forest Service, wrote the compiler that the lake was named because a prominent mountain peak stands immediately at one end, like a gravestone.

TOMBSTONE PRAIRIE, Linn County. This is a pleasant place on the South Santiam Highway, despite its melancholy name. Hackleman Creek flows eastward from the prairie into Fish Lake, and just west of the prairie the highway crosses Tombstone Summit, the watershed between the South Santiam and the McKenzie River drainage. On the south edge of the prairie is a tombstone with the inscription: "JAMES A., son of J. W. & C. M. McKnight. From an Accidental Shot. Oct. 17, 1871. AGED 18 Y's 9 M's 9 D's." Below this inscription there are eight stanzas of poetry, apparently composed by Mrs. McKnight.

TOMLIKE MOUNTAIN, Hood River County. This mountain is south of Wyeth. According to H. D. Langille of Portland, it bears the name of Tomlike, or Indian George, a familiar character in the Hood River Valley. He was the son of Chinidere, the last Indian chief in that part of Oregon.

TONGUE POINT, Clatsop County. As far as the writer knows Tongue Point was the first geographic feature in Oregon not fronting on the Pacific Ocean to be named by white men. Captain George Vancouver, at the head of his expedition, attempted to sail into the mouth of the Columbia River in his sloop Discovery on October 19 and 20, 1792, but was forced to abandon the attempt on October 21, and sailed southward, leaving Lieutenant William Robert Broughton on the armed tender Chatham safely inside the bar. On the day that Vancouver sailed south, Broughton noted "a remarkable projecting point, that obtained the name of TONGUE POINT, on the southern shore, appearing like an island." No