Sumner, Oregon
Sumner is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States.[1] It is located about ten miles southeast of Coos Bay on the route of the old Coos Bay Wagon Road.[1][2]
According to William Gladstone Steel, the community was founded in 1888 by John B. Dalley (other sources have the spelling as "Dulley"[3]), who named it after Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator who died in 1874.[4] Sumner post office, however, was established in 1874, so Steel must have had the date wrong.[4] Dalley was the first postmaster and the office closed in 1961.[4] In 1915, Sumner had a population of 100.[5] As of 1990, the community had one store.[5]
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References
- ^ a b "Sumner". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
- ^ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 51. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
- ^ "Sumner". Oregon Teacher's Monthly. 15 (1). Salem, Oregon: 252.
- ^ a b c McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 922. ISBN 978-0875952772.
- ^ a b Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. p. 224. ISBN 0-87004-332-3.
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