Telocaset, Oregon

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A wind farm and mailboxes across a gravel road in Telocaset

Telocaset /tɛlkæsɛt/ is an unincorporated community in Union County, Oregon, United States. [1] It was a stagecoach station whose name comes from the Nez Perce word meaning "a thing at the top" or "put on top". [2] The Nez Perce pronounced the word taule-karset. [2]

Beginning in 1885, [3] it was a station on the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company line; [4] today the line is owned by Union Pacific. [1] Telocaset was never platted, but it had a post office that ran from 1885 until 1975. [2] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Telocaset". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. November 28, 1980. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
  2. 1 2 3 McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 941–942. ISBN   978-0875952772.
  3. Bailey, Barbara Ruth (1982). Main Street: Northeastern Oregon. Oregon Historical Society. p. 26. ISBN   0-87595-073-6.
  4. 1 2 Bailey, Barbara Ruth (1982). Main Street: Northeastern Oregon. Oregon Historical Society. p. 46. ISBN   0-87595-073-6.

Coordinates: 45°06′04″N117°49′35″W / 45.100973°N 117.826325°W / 45.100973; -117.826325