Philadelphia in 1876, a sample of flax sent by "Uncle Charley," beat the whole world.
Miller Creek, Marion County. Miller Creek drains the hills east of Ankeny Bottom, in the southwest part of the county. It was named for W. F. Miller, a pioneer settler on its banks.
Millers, Linn County. Millers post office was established a few miles northeast of Albany on February 7, 1873, with Henry Newman first postmaster. The office was in operation for more than twenty years with several different postmasters. The office was named in compliment to Isaac Miller, a prominent pioneer resident of the vicinity. Millersburg is the name of the railroad station that still serves this locality. It seems possible that the post office may have moved with the various postmasters and in that event the railroad company used a different form of name for the station so as to avoid confusion.
Millersburg, Linn County. This is a station on the Southern Pacific a few miles north of Albany. Members of the Miller family have lived there nearly a century. Isaac Miller took up a donation land claim nearby in pioneer days.
Millican, Deschutes County. George Millican was a prominent stockman of central Oregon. He was born near Ostego, New York, November 22, 1834, and came to the Pacific Coast when he was a young man. He visited mining camps from California to Idaho, and finally settled on the McKenzie River east of Eugene in 1862. He made a trip into the Ochoco country as early as 1863, and subsequently became interested in developing the toll road over McKenzie Pass. He took a band of cattle into the Crooked River country in 1868 and settled there. A few years later he located a ranch near the present site of Millican in Millican Valley, about 27 miles southeast of Bend. He carried on the business of raising high grade stock, and finally sold out in 1916. He died on November 25, 1919. See Carey's History of Oregon, volume III, page 714. Millican was at one time postmaster at Walterville, Lane County, which he named for his son, Walter Millican. Walter Millican was born in 1870, and is said to have been the first male white child born in central Oregon. Millican Crater, just south of Black Crater, in northwest Deschutes County, was named for George Millican. The old Millican store was on the P. B. Johnson homestead on the Bend-Burns road a little over a half a mile south of the 1942 location and the post office was established in 1913, with Johnson postmaster. Johnson proposed the name Mount Pine, and Mrs. George Millican suggested her husband's name, which was adopted. There was some objection to Mount Pine because of possible confusion with Lapine. Johnson later sold out to J. A. Smith and a man named Moore became postmaster. William A. Rahn was made postmaster about 1920 and the community became a one-man affair. In October, 1930, the Central Oregon Highway was opened on a new location to the north and Rahn found it necessary to move his one-man town, which was done to the accompaniment of suitable publicity. Nearly everything was shifted but the well. In 1941 and 1942 Millican and "Billy" Rahn received nation-wide publicity as a one-man town and its sole citizen. In the fall of 1942 Rahn reached the age of retirement for postmasters, and it was necessary to close the office as no one was available to take it. For illustrated story about Millican and Billy Rahn by Phil Brogan, see magazine section of the Sunday Oregonian, September 1, 1940.
