Hamlet, Oregon

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Hamlet is an unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is located approximately six miles southeast of Necanicum, in the Northern Oregon Coast Range near the confluence of the North Fork Nehalem River and the Little North Fork Nehalem River. [2] It is surrounded by units of the Clatsop State Forest. [2]

The town was founded by Finns and according to author Ralph Friedman, the place never had a store, church, post office, or village center. [3] Oregon Geographic Names however, says that Hamlet post office was established circa 1905, and was named because it was a small community, or hamlet. [4] The Hamlet post office was located at 5 or more locations over the years, as each new postmaster would build a new shed to serve as one on their homestead. The post office closed in 1953, with mail going to Seaside. [4] Hamlet did have a school, which currently serves as a community center. The original schoolhouse burned down in 1910, and a new one was constructed about 1/2 mile away in 1911 [3] [5] There is also a cemetery. [3] [5] A later Friedman book gives the history of the post office and the Finnish founders of the town. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hamlet, Oregon
  2. 1 2 Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 20. ISBN   978-0-89933-347-2.
  3. 1 2 3 Friedman, Ralph (1990). In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp. 26, 145. ISBN   0-87004-332-3.
  4. 1 2 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 439–440. ISBN   978-0875952772.
  5. 1 2 Friedman, Ralph (1993) [1972]. Oregon for the Curious (3rd ed.). Portland, Oregon: Pars Publishing Company. p. 189. ISBN   0-87004-222-X.
  6. ↑ Friedman, Ralph (1978). "The Small Drama of Hamlet". Tracking Down Oregon. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. pp. 35–42. ISBN   0-87004-257-2.

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