In a message dated 1/7/2005 10:52:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I am researching some information I received on Samuel W. Best's death. > > Bend Bulletin Mon. 8 Apr 1918 He was found dead on Tumalo Hill. > Would this be the hill south of Tumalo? > > It also states that he resided in KENWOOD in the Wen. 10 April 1918 > Bend Bulletin. Seems the poor man was knocked form his seat on the > wagon load of lumber when the binder on the load broke. > > Oregon Geographic Names by McArthur does not list this by gone > community. Can anyone tell me where this might have been? > > Thank you, Jan -- No post office was established at a community called Kenwood, but the GNIS (http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form) turns up a Kenwood School in Bend, but on the western bank of the river. So I'm going to guess it was a separate community at the time. Much like East Portland was to Portland. And looks like Here's the location of the school on a topo map: http:// www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.0622&lon=-121.3217 Tumalo Hill is probably Tumalo Butte. It's just north and west of where I suspect Kenwood is. It's at: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.0956& lon=-121.3689 There's also a Tumalo Mountain, but it's much further west, into the Cascades. So I'd guess it refers to the butte. Julie Kidd
>In a message dated 1/7/2005 10:52:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > >>I am researching some information I received on Samuel W. Best's death. >> >>Bend Bulletin Mon. 8 Apr 1918 He was found dead on Tumalo Hill. >>Would this be the hill south of Tumalo? >> >>It also states that he resided in KENWOOD in the Wen. 10 April 1918 >>Bend Bulletin. Seems the poor man was knocked form his seat on the >>wagon load of lumber when the binder on the load broke. >> >>Oregon Geographic Names by McArthur does not list this by gone >>community. Can anyone tell me where this might have been? >> >>Thank you, >> > > > >Jan -- > > >No post office was established at a community called Kenwood, but >the GNIS >(http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form) >turns up a Kenwood School in Bend, but on the western bank of the >river. So I'm going to guess it was a separate community at the >time. Much like East Portland was to Portland. And looks like > >Here's the location of the school on a topo map: >http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.0622&lon=-121.3217 > >Tumalo Hill is probably Tumalo Butte. It's just north and west of >where I suspect Kenwood is. It's at: >http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.0956&lon=-121.3689 > >There's also a Tumalo Mountain, but it's much further west, into the >Cascades. So I'd guess it refers to the butte. > > >Julie Kidd Thanks Julie, These were the same things I came up with in looking at the paper maps I have except there is also a hill north of Bend about 5 miles that is just south of the little burg of Tumalo. It is interesting that there is info in the old news paper but nothing in Oregon geographic names. Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the FGS Conference in Salt Lake City Sept 7 thru 10 2005 Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html