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 crepancy in spelling between the post office name and the railroad station name. The USBGN finally decided on Tualatin, which is now in universal use. The post office with the spelling Tualitin was established November 5, 1869, with Marcellus S. Dailey first postmaster. The name was changed to Tualatin on September 25, 1915. In the '80s the place was sometimes called Bridgeport probably because of the construction of one of the first bridges over Tualatin River nearby.

TUALATIN RIVER, Washington County. Tualatin is probably an Indian word meaning lazy or sluggish, this being the character of the river's flow; another meaning is land without trees, signifying the plains of Tualatin. The latter was vouched for by Tolbert Carter, pioneer of 1846, whose home was near Wells, Benton County (Geo. H. Himes). Tualatin was Twha-la-ti, according to Silas B. Smith in the OHQ, volume I, page 323. John Work gave Faladin in 1834. The name has had many variations, among them Twality, Quality, Falatine and Nefalatine. There is a town named Tualatin in Washington County. The settlements near what are now known as Hillsboro and Forest Grove were in pioneer days called East and West Tualatin precincts. One of the original districts or counties of Oregon was called Twality. See OHQ, volume XI, page 11, volume XVI, page 278 and volume

XXVIII, page 56. The spelling Tuality was also used officially

TUB SPRING, Wallowa County. Tub Spring is in township 2 north, range 41 east, and is so called because it was lined with a tub to keep the water clean. This was done about 1890 when McDonald brothers had a cattle camp nearby.

TUCKER BRIDGE, Hood River County. B. R. Tucker built a bridge and a sawmill at this place about 1881, and the locality was named Tucker Bridge for him. Tucker post office was established January 15, 1892, with B. R. Tucker postmaster. The office was discontinued June 2, 1900.

TUCKER CREEK, Clatsop County. J. B. Kilmore of Astoria wrote the compiler in 1927 that this stream, southeast of Astoria, was named for a wood scow operator who cut wood near the stream and brought it to Astoria for sale.

TUFTI MOUNTAIN, Lane County. Tufti Mountain is about six miles southeast of Oakridge. It was named for a local Indian celebrity Charlie Tufti.

TULE LAKE, Klamath County, Oregon, and Modoc and Siskiyou counties, California. Tule Lake was discovered May 1, 1846, by then Captain John C. Fremont, and was later named Lake Rhett for his friend, Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina. See Fremont's Memoirs of My Life, Chicago, 1887, page 480. On July 6, 1846, the Applegate exploring party first saw this lake. See OHQ, volume XXII, page 1. It is possible that members of the exploring party named the lake Tule Lake at that time, because of its surroundings, although the article does not specifically say so. The article was not written at the time of the exploration. In any event, the name Tule Lake has come into general use and has been adopted by the USBGN in preference to Lake Rhett. Tule is the name of a certain kind of rush. Due to the fact that the waters of Lost River have been diverted, the lake is being gradually reclaimed and at the time of this writing does not exist in Oregon. See Oregonian, September 16, 1923, page 2. There has been a post ER