Page:Oregon Historical Quarterly vol. 26.djvu/417

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Oregon Geographic Names
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Broken Top, Deschutes County. Although badly shattered this mountain is one of the important peaks in the Cascade Range. It is southeast of the South Sister and has an elevation of 9152 feet. From the aspect of its jagged summit it is not difficult to see why it was named. On its northern slope is Bend Glacier, on its south slope is Crook Glacier.

Brookings, Curry County. This post office was named for Robert S. Brookings, of St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912. He was the largest stockholder in a lumbering enterprise that started the town.

BROOKS, Marion County. This is a station on the main line of the Southern Pacific Company nine miles north of Salem, elevation 180 feet. It was named for Linus Brooks, who was born in Ohio in 1805, and came to Oregon from Illinois in 1850 and settled near the present site of the community.

Brothers, Deschutes County. This is a post office on the stage road between Bend and Burns, in the southeast part of the county. It is said to have been named Brothers in contradistinction to Sisters, a well-known community northwest of Bend, which was named for the Three Sisters mountains.

Brownsboro, Jackson County. This place was named in 1853 for Henry R. Brown, on whose land the site of the community was located.

Brownsmead, Clatsop County. This community has developed on the bank of the Columbia River as the result of dyking and reclamation work, carried on by W. G. Brown, a well-known engineer of Portland. His name coupled with the Anglo-Saxon word for meadow formed the name of the community. It was formerly known as Brody.

Brownsville, Linn County. Brownsville is on the Calapooya River near the foothills of the Cascade Range, and has an elevation of 338 feet. It was laid out in 1853,