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<DIV>In a message dated 4/5/2009 10:36:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
reedsportchapmans@verizon.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I
couldn't find anything online about the hotel, here is a picture of
town,<BR>but it's not very clear, or close. My Ghost Towns of Oregon doesn't
cover<BR>Flora, Friedman doesn't mention it, nor any of the rest of my books
on<BR>Oregon history.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Les,</DIV>
<DIV>Do you have "Oregon Geographic Names"? Here is what it has to say about
Flora.</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition</EM>, 2003, McArthur, Lewis
L.</DIV>
<DIV>"FLORA, Wallowa. Flora was a post office in the extreme north part of
Wallowa County. It was named for the daughter of the first postmaster in that
district, A.D. Buzzard. This information was given the compiler by N.J. Hansen,
postmaster at Flora in 1925. The office was opened October 6, 1890, and closed
December 27, 1966. The little of Flora that remains is described by Phil Adamsak
in the <EM>Oregon Journal</EM>, July 31, 1981, p. 19."</DIV>
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<DIV>And, here's another excerpt from that book:</DIV>
<DIV>LIGHTLE FLAT, Wallowa. George, Jay, and Charlie Lightle all homesteaded on
this flat due east of Troy in 1880.. See Horner, p. 914</DIV>
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<DIV>STERLING GULCH, Wallowa. Sterling Gulch, four miles northeast of Greenwood
Butte, was named for A.W. Sterling. Horner, p. 1247, says he homesteaded here in
the 1880s.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm sorry, but without an in depth study, I am unable to put my finger on
the Horner reference. Is that something you have, Les?</DIV>
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<DIV>Linda VanOrden</DIV>
<DIV>Junction City, OR</DIV>
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