CARVER, Clackamas County. Carver is a post office near Baker Bridge on Clackamas River. It is at the site of the former office of Stone, which was established a number of years ago, and was later discontinued. The old office was called Stone because of the number of large boulders in the locality. About 1915 Stephen S. Carver promoted an interurban line from Portland into this part of Clackamas County, and a townsite at Stone was surveyed and platted with his name, Carver. The post office of Carver was established about 1924. S. S. Carver was born in Iowa in 1866 and died at Carver November 25, 1933. For obituary, see the Oregon Journal, November 27, 1933.
Carver GLACIER, Deschutes County. Jonathan Carver was the first person known to have used the name Oregon, which he did in a book published 1778. The only place in Oregon where his name has been perpetuated is in Carver Glacier, which is on the north slope of the South Sister and is one of the sources of Squaw Creek. It was named by Professor Edwin T. Hodge of the University of Oregon in 1924. Carver was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, April 3, 1710. He served in the French and Indian wars, and later became an adventurous traveler. He had difficulties in getting the story of his travels published, and soured and discontented, he went to England where he was in a measure successful. He died in want in London in 1780. For his travels Carver outfitted at Mackinac and went to Green Bay, on Lake Michigan, and from there, by portage and river, to the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, and then up the Mississippi to the Saint Peter, to spend the winter of 1766-67. He returned by way of Lake Superior, in 1767. Carver's Travels have been criticised as to their originality, and questions of plagiarism have been discussed by historical and literary authorities for many years. He is alleged to have plagiarized the writings of Charlevoix, Lahontan and James Adair, and the parallels have been freely quoted. For narrative of Carver's travels and discussion of this "plagiarism," see The American Historical Review, volume XI, pages 287–302, by Edward Gaylord Bourne. See also Bibliography of Carver's Travels, 1910, and Additional Data, 1913, by John Thomas Lee, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society. For details of Carver's family and of his birth, see The Wisconsin Magazine of History, volume III, No. 3, page 229, by William Browning. While Jonathan Carver originated the form of the name Oregon, it now seems probable that he did not originate the name itself. That was apparently done by Major Robert Rogers, an English army officer who was commandant at the frontier military post at Mackinac, Michigan, during the time of Carver's journey into the upper valley of the Mississippi. For particulars of this matter see the OHQ, volume XXII, No. 2, for June, 1921, containing an article by T. C. Elliott. See under the heading Oregon. Rogers used the form Ourigan.
Cascade Head, Tillamook County. Cascade Head is a jagged, wooded cape with a cliff on the seaward side, about three miles long and in places over 100 feet high. It was named because of the fact that its face is cut deep by gorges through which the waters of three creeks are discharged from cascades 60 to 80 feet high. The name was applied to it by George Davidson of the U. S. Coast Survey in the Coast Pilot for 1869.
Cascade Locks, Hood River County. The federal government adopted a plan for permanent improvements at the Cascades of the Columbia in 1875, and began work in 1878. For the history of the construction of
