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TUNNEL POINT, Coos County. Tunnel Point is a natural rock formation on Bastendorff Beach at the south side of the entrance to Coos Bay. It has a hole in it, hence the name.

TUPPER ROCK, Coos County. This was a well-known landmark near Bandon, and just south of Coquille River. It was named for John P. Tupper, who kept a hotel at Bandon for many years. Most of the rock has been removed and used to build the Coquille River jetty. There is a snappy picture of J. P. Tupper's Ocean House and Tupper Rock in Walling's History of Southern Oregon, page 268.

TURNER, Marion County. When the railroad was built through this part of the state the officials shipped a load of construction material to the present site of Turner, with instructions to build a station and warehouse to be known as Marion. A man in charge of the shipment unloaded it at the wrong place and built a station some six miles farther south which was called Marion and is in the present location of the station of that name. When the railroad officials discovered the material had been sent to the wrong place they sent a new consignment to the place originally intended to be called Marion, and after building a station named it Turner, for Henry L. Turner, a well-known pioneer resident of this vicinity.

TURNER CREEK, Yamhill County. The stream heading near the Yamhill-Washington county line and flowing south into North Yamhill River near Pike is generally known as Turner Creek. The name came from a family of pioneer settlers which at one time operated a small water driven sawmill on the upper reaches of the stream. This creek has also been called Hay Creek and Hayes Creek, but local sentiment at Pike seems to be in favor of Turner Creek. That is the name used by the Army Engineers who mapped the Fairdale atlas sheet and it is also the name favored by Yamhill County authorities.

TURNER MOUNTAIN, Grant County. Turner Mountain is in the extreme northwest corner of Grant County, in the southwest part of township 7 south, range 27 east. It was named for Joseph A. Turner, a pioneer homesteader on the Howell ranch nearby.

TUSKAN, Wasco County. This is a railway station near Sherars Bridge. The Indian name of the locality near Sherars Bridge was Tush-kan-ee, and the modern form is derived from the old name.

TUSTIN LAKE, Yamhill County. This intermittent pond was named for Charles S. Tustin, a pioneer settler. The lake is near the North Yamhill River west of St. Joseph.

TUTUILLA CREEK, Umatilla County. Information about the origin of this name is conflicting. Judge Fred W. Wilson of The Dalles told the compiler in 1927 that there was a family tradition that this stream was named about 1870 by his father, the late Judge Joseph G. Wilson, because of some childish remark made by his sister, Lucy Wilson, later Mrs. Joseph T. Peters of Portland. Lucy Wilson's nickname was Toots and the story is that Judge and Mrs. Wilson and their little girl were camped near the mouth of this stream and the child referred to it as Toots Creek. Judge Wilson then made up the name Tutuilla Creek. Residents on the Umatilla Indian Reservation do not agree with this version. One old Indian says that the stream has been known as Tutuilla Creek by the Indians for several generations and that the word tutuilla means a thorn bush which grows along its banks. There is another story