Wyeth, Oregon
Lyn Topinka, Columbia River Images: Wyeth, Oregon
Wyeth was a railway station and was named after Oregon pioneer Nathaniel J. Wyeth, builder of Fort Hall (today's Pocatello, Idaho) and the Fort William trading post on Sauvie Island. Today the location is the Wyeth State Recreation Area.
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According to McArthur and McArthur in "Oregon Geographic Names" (2003):
"... Oregon has seen fit to honor one of her notable explorers by attaching his name to a post office and a railroad station that achieved fame largely because it was for some years the site of a "tie pickling plant". The post office ran with one interruption from 1901 to 1936. More recently, Wyeth State Recreation Area has been established. ..."
Lyn Topinka. The Columbia River: A Photographic Journey. http://columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/wyeth.html
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