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WOODSTOCK, Multnomah County. Woodstock is a station of Portland postofhce. It bears the name of a real estate tract platted in 1889. At that time there was a vogue for naming tracts after Sir Walter Scott's novels, and in the southeast part of Portland we have Woodstock, Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, Waverly, sic., and even such flights of fancy as Waverleigh. The word stoc came from the Anglo-Saxon and means a stockaded place, and woodstock means a place fortified with wooden posts. Woodstock was an independent post office from 1891 to 1912.

WOODWARD CREEK, Coos County. This creek is a tributary to South Fork Coquille River. It was named for Henry H. Woodward, a pioneer settler nearby.

WOOLDRIDGE BUTTE, Lane County. This low hill, elevation 380 feet, is about a mile east of Cheshire and bears the name of a well-known pioneer family of the vicinity. The spelling Waldridge is wrong. Wooldridge Creek, a stream in Jackson County flowing into Slagle Creek, is named for members of the same family. See letter by Logan Wooldridge in Grants Pass Bulletin, June 4, 1937.

WOOLLEY, Douglas County. The Woolley family is very well known in northern Douglas County and when a post office was established September 20. 1905, with Anna L. Woolley first postmaster it was natural that the office should be given the family name. Woolley was about fifteen miles northwest of Drain on the Smith River road. It was also about eight miles east of Gunter. The office was discontinued June 30, 1912, In February, 1948, Mrs. May Brown Woolley of Drain, sent the compiler an interesting letter about early day conditions in the upper Smith River area. Mrs. Woolley's letter with other useful information will be found in the Roseburg News-Review, March 6, 1948.

WORDEN, Klamath County. William S. Worden was a member of a family of early settlers in Klamath County and during the time the Southern Pacific Company built a railroad into Klamath Falls Worden acted as right-of-way agent and while doing so purchased the land and laid out the present townsite of Worden. The post office was established in 1910. Worden was subsequently elected county judge of Klamath County.

WREN, Benton County. This place bears the name of George P. W'ren, a pioneer settler.

WRENTHAM, Wasco County. Wrentham was named by the Daniel Farrington family, which came to Oregon from Maine. It is said that the family had lived in New York near a point once known as Wrentham Hill and Wrentham, Oregon, was named on that account. Wrentham post office was established in 1900 but has been discontinued.

WRIGHT, Jackson County. Nicholas B. Wright was the only postmaster that Iright post office ever boasted and the place was named in his honor. It was about nine miles up Applegate River, or south, from the place called Uniontown, which was near the mouth of Little Applegate River. Wright post office was in service from April 25, 1878, to December 22, 1888, when it was closed out to Uniontown.

WRIGHT CREEK, Clackamas County, Wright Creek is a small stream just north of Liberal, flowing into Molalla River. It was named in compliment to Harrison Wright, a pioneer of 1844, who settled near the present site of Liberal. He was instrumental in getting a pioneer post office, which was named Molalla, and Wright was first postmaster. This