Eagle Creek, Clackamas County. Eagle Creek is the name of a post office as well as of a stream. There are many streams of the same name in the state. A. C. Cogswell, postmaster at Eagle Creek in 1925, wrote the compiler that the place was called Eagle Creek as early as 1844, and that the name originated with Indians because there were so many eagles along the stream.
Eagle Point, Jackson County. Just east of the town of Eagle Point is a prominent rocky cliff, surmounted by pine trees, and in pioneer days this was a favorite nesting place for eagles. It was called Eagle Point. It is said that John Mathews suggested the name of this point for the post office, which was established about 1872, with Andrew McNeil first postmaster.
Eagleton, Baker County. Eagleton post office was in the extreme north part of the county a little to the northeast of Sanger. It was on one of the forks of Eagle Creek and took its name on that account. When established the office was in Union County, but a change of boundaries brought it into Baker County. Eagleton post office was established April 22, 1896, with Frank McGee first postmaster. It was closed in February, 1902. The compiler was told that the place was established in connection with mining activity.
Earl, Lane County, Earl post office was established April 26, 1898, with Arthur J. Johnson first postmaster, and was named for Earl R. Johnson, the small son of the postmaster. It is reported that several names were sent in and postal authorities selected Earl from the lot. The office was then in Douglas County, on the headwaters of Sweet Creek southeast of Point Terrace. About 1913 the Douglas - Lane county boundary line was changed and the office was then in Lane County. It was discontinued June 15, 1925. In March 1947, Earl R. Johnson, then living on Crow Stage Route, wrote the compiler in part as follows: "At that time all the mail was carried on horseback over steep mountain trails, and though the mail came only once a week, mail day was really an event to the people in that out of the way station. The route led from Point Terrace at the mouth of Sweet Creek on the Siuslaw River up the creek to Earl, a distance of nine miles. I helped circulate the petition which led to the change of the county boundary. About the time Earl post office was established, an office was also established at Ord, which was about seven miles east over the mountains on the headwaters of Smith River. Horace Fisk was the first postmaster at Ord."
Early, Sherman County. Early post office was established in the northeast part of Sherman County on January 9, 1902, with Herbert K. Porter first of three postmasters. Members of the Wall family later ran the office, which was discontinued August 30, 1919. On September 10, 1946, Giles French wrote the compiler as follows: "Early was a post office on the north line of township two north just west of John Day River. At Early there was a flour mill where early-day farmers obtained their bread-stuff, and I am told the name was given the place because garden sass became edible early when grown there. The elevation is low and the sun shines brightly in the John Day Valley when it is cold and windy on the hills above. The Walls built a dam a short way above the mill and James Fox now grows alfalfa there. It would be a quiet and peaceful spot in which to retire from the cares of the world, the telephones, the Russians, bureaucracy, radio, UNRRA, the whips and scorns of time, the unworthy spurns that patient merit takes."
