John Day, Oregon is named after the explorer and cartographer, John Day, who died and was buried at a convenient meeting place, and a river bears his name, and a fossil-bed, and an odd fish.
What a guy! I'm not particularly related to him, though the first John Day in my lineage came to that same general part of the Pacific northwest from England not too long after that.
I've never been there. It is not close to the coastal highway.
Hi Doc. Just a completely irrelevant comment:
Did you know there is a town in Oregon named John Day? It is named after a river of the same name.
John Day, Oregon is named after the explorer and cartographer, John Day, who died and was buried at a convenient meeting place, and a river bears his name, and a fossil-bed, and an odd fish.
What a guy! I'm not particularly related to him, though the first John Day in my lineage came to that same general part of the Pacific northwest from England not too long after that.
I've never been there. It is not close to the coastal highway.
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