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a. With one short interval he ran this office until August, 1904. In March, 1948, Isaac V. Trullinger, then living in Portland, and a son of Gabriel J. Trullinger, sent some information to the compiler. Gabriel J. Trullinger came to Oregon in 1847 and took up a donation claim on Milk Creek in 1852. He built a sawmill and later added wool carding machinery. Still later he added a planing mill and as a result of these various activities he called his establishment Union Mills. A flour mill was built in 1877. In 1875 the post office had been moved from Cuttingsville. The post offices of Cuttingsville and Union Mills were not in exactly the same place. Isaac V. Trullinger adds an interesting note that the planer was bought from Dr. John McLoughlin, who imported it from England. It is said to have been the first power driven planer to operate on the Pacific Coast. This piece of machinery is now in the museum of the Oregon Historical Society at Portland.

UNION PEAK, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County. This peak was named for patriotic reasons by a party of prospectors who climbed it on October 21, 1862. Will G, Steel gives their names as follows: Chauncey Nye, H. Abbott, S. Smith, J. Brandlin, James Leyman and J. W. Sessions. The elevation of Union Peak is 7698 feet.

UNION Point, Linn County. Union Point post office was established February 18, 1854, with William B. Blain postmaster. Hugh Dinwiddie became postmaster March 2, 1855. The compiler suspects that the office was named for patriotic reasons but has no details. It was about four miles south of Brownsville. There is no longer a community with the name, but there is a Union Point School, Union Point post office was discontinued in August, 1859.

UNIONTOWN, Clatsop County. Uniontown is in the west part of Astoria and got its name from the Union Packing Company, which began operations in the early '80s, in the vicinity of Bond and Washington streets. The company was not successful and its real estate was platted into lots and deeded to the stockholders. The locality was called Uniontown and the name eventually spread until it included the entire west end of Astoria. For details, see Astorian-Budget, March 4, 1938.

UNIONTOWN, Jackson County. Uniontown was an early post office on Applegate River near the mouth of Little Applegate River. Theodoric Cameron, a native of Madison County, New York, and a pioneer of 1852, was the only postmaster the place ever had. Cameron was a staunch republican and during the Civil War had pronounced views on upholding the Union. The place was named on that account. Uniontown post ofhce was in operation at the Cameron store from April, 1879, until September, 1891.

UNIT LAKE, Wallowa County. This lake is in township 4 south, range 44 east, in the Wallowa Mountains. It is somewhat separated from other lakes in the vicinity and is named because it is a unit by itself.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Multnomah County. Portland has had a liberal supply of platted additions with fancy names, although many of them actually came into being before the city became a metropolis. In fact some of them antedated the Portland-East Portland-Albina consolidation of 189). A number of them, then suburbs, had post offices. An office called Portsmouth was established April 17, 1891, with Chapman S. Pennock postmaster. This was to serve the area of Portsmouth addition,