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TROUTDALE, Multnomah County. The community of Troutdale was once known as Sandy. Sandy post office was established June 1, 1854, with Emsley R. Scott postmaster. The office was discontinued February 26, 1868. It was apparently near the present site of the town Troutdale. Captain John Harlow, an Oregon pioneer from Maine, originated the name Troutdale, because of the fact that there was a small dale near his house where he had a fish pond, which he stocked with trout. This occurred about 1880. Shortly thereafter he secured the establishment of Troutdale post office. This office was for a time discontinued. When the railroad built through this section of the country the station was named Troutdale, at the request of Captain Harlow, and so it has been known ever since. Troy, Wallowa County. The postmaster at Troy informed the compiler in December, 1926, that at the time the post office was established, which was in 1902, several names were suggested, but the Post Office Department rejected them all. Finally the department suggested a list which included the name Troy. This was adopted. However, in 1931, J. H. Horner of Enterprise told the compiler that the place was probably named for Troy Grinstead, son of A. L. Grinstead. Mormons settled in the locality about 1898 and the place was generally called Nauvoo. Truax ISLAND, Linn County. Truax Island is northeast of Corvallis, on the south side of Willamette River and north of Dead River. It was named for Wallace and Maud Truax, landowners. The spelling Traux is wrong.

TRYON, Columbia County. Tryon, the name of a locality in Columbia County, came from the family name of Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon, son of an Oregon pioneer of 1850. Dr. Socrates H. Tryon, Sr., settled near Oswego and Tryon Creek just west of Palatine Hill in Clackamas and Multnomah counties bears his name. The younger Tryon was left fatherless in 1855 and had to shift for himself most of his life. In 1869 he became a fisherman on the Columbia River and later engaged in logging and farming. Tryon post office was established near the Columbia River at a point between Rainier and Mayger on December 1, 1884, with S. H. Tryon postmaster. The place was about a mile and a half south of Walker Island. The office was discontinued in September, 1894. There is an account of the activities of S. H. Tryon in Fred Lockley's column in the Oregon Journal, August 25, 1928, editorial page. Records at the Oregon Historical Society do not substantiate the statement that Dr. Tryon was an Oregon pioneer of 1849. That was probably the year he arrived in California. He reached Oregon in 1850. TryON CREEK, Clackamas and Multnomah counties. Dr. Socrates Hotchkiss Trvon was born in Vermont about 1815 and came to Oregon by way of Panama about 1850. He settled near Oswego, and Tryon Creek is named in his memory. He died in 1855. Tryon Creek drains the west slope of Palatine Hill and flows into Willamette River just north of Oswego, For information about the Tryon family, see article by Fred Lockley, Oregon Journal, August 25, 1928.

TRYON CREEK, Wallowa County. Tryon Creek flows into Snake River in township 3 north, range 50 east. It bears the name of Nate and James Tryon, who ranged sheep there and built a two-story cabin.

TUALATIN, Washington County. The town of Tualatin is near Tualatin River and was named on that account. There was formerly a dis