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eventually both were absorbed by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. For details of fight with Indians on this island see OPA Transactions for 1896. Assertions that Bradford Island is the Strawberry Island of Lewis and Clark are not substantiated by the maps of the explorers. It is apparent from both text and maps that Lewis and Clark used the name Brant Island for what is now known as Bradford Island. Their Strawberry Island is now Hamilton Island, close to the north bank. However, on the return journey, Patrick Gass used the name Strawberry Island in error for what was then Brant Island, now Bradford. This was on the evening of April 9, 1806. The Astorians had the Gass journals but not those of Lewis and Clark, and as a result applied the name Strawberry Island to the wrong landmark. This error has been perpetuated by several subsequent editors and writers.

BRADLEY TRAIL, Douglas County. This trail is a well-known route of travel along the North Umpqua River in the eastern part of the county. It was named for William Bradley, a pioneer trapper and mountain stockman, who is said to have been born near Oakland, and to have worked his way into the headwaters of the North Umpqua River as early as 1875, when he was a young man. He traded deer meat and hides with the Indians, taking ponies in return, which he sold in Eugene and other points. This trade opened up a trail across the Cascade Range, which has ever since been known as the Bradley Trail, and much of it has been put on modern standards by the Forest Service. Bradley Creek, a tributary of the North Umpqua rising west of Windigo Butte, also bears the name of the same man. Bradley was killed by a horse in 1909, dying near his lonely cabin at Illahe.

BRADWOOD, Clatsop County. The Bradley-Woodard Lumber Co. was incorporated July 15, 1930, and one of its activities was the development of a mill and community on the south bank of the Columbia River about two miles upstream from Clifton. The name of the new town, Bradwood, was made synthetically from the name of the company.

BRANDY Bar, Douglas County, Brandy Bar is in Umpqua River about fifteen miles east of Reedsport. On August 6, 1850, the schooner Samuel Roberts of the Klamath Exploring Expedition grounded on this bar and the party was forced to spend the night there. There was some brandy aboard ship which was used too freely during the night to the exasperation of the owner. The place was called Brandy Bar because of this incident. See OHQ, volume XVII, page 355.

BRAUNSPORT, Columbia County. Braunsport post office was established in November, 1891, with Johann B. Braun postmaster. The office operated under Braun's guidance until November 9, 1901, when it was discontinued. In December, 1945, Omar C. Spencer of the Portland bar wrote the compiler that Braunsport was on Beaver Creek approximately five miles southwest of Vernonia, and that it was named for the first postmaster, who was a native of Germany. Mr. Spencer added the historical fact that there was a school at this placed called Braunsport School, where he, Mr. Spencer, taught four months during the summer of 1897. An Army map of the Vernonia quadrangle shows Beaver Creek School in the approximate location of the old locality of Braunsport. The place on the map shown as Braun is a little to the northeast of Braunsport. Bray Point, Lane County. Bray Point was named for a local family.