Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States
Unincorporated community in Oregon, United States
Hauser is an
unincorporated community in
Coos County ,
Oregon , United States.
[1] It is along
U.S. Route 101 , 7 miles (11 km) south of
Lakeside and 6 miles (10 km) north of
North Bend .
[2] Hauser is on the edge of the
Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near North Slough, a tributary of
Coos Bay once known as the North Inlet of Coos Bay.
[2]
[3] It is a station on the
Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (formerly the
Southern Pacific ).
[4]
Hauser was originally named "North Slough" but it was decided the name was unsuitable.
[4]
[5]
[6] It was renamed after
Eric V. Hauser of
Portland , who, with his sons, had a construction contract on the railroad in about 1914.
[4]
[6] Hauser is also the namesake of the library at
Reed College in Portland and he once owned the
Multnomah Hotel .
[7]
[8] Hauser post office ran from 1915 to 1957.
[4]
Charles D. McFarlin of
Massachusetts built the first known
cranberry bog on the
West Coast in what is now Hauser in 1884.
[9]
[10]
References
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a
b
"Hauser" .
Geographic Names Information System .
United States Geological Survey ,
United States Department of the Interior . November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
^
a
b Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.).
Yarmouth, Maine :
DeLorme . 2008. p. 44.
ISBN
978-0-89933-347-2 .
^
"North Slough" .
Geographic Names Information System .
United States Geological Survey ,
United States Department of the Interior . November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
^
a
b
c
d
McArthur, Lewis A. ;
McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928].
Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon:
Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 451.
ISBN
978-0875952772 .
^
Writers' Program of the
Work Projects Administration in the
State of Oregon (1940).
Oregon: End of the Trail .
American Guide Series .
Portland, Oregon :
Binfords & Mort . p.
380 .
OCLC
4874569 .
^
a
b
Friedman, Ralph (1990).
In Search of Western Oregon (2nd ed.). Caldwell, Idaho:
The Caxton Printers, Ltd . p. 84.
ISBN
0-87004-332-3 .
^
"The Reed Library: A Short History" . Reed Magazine . November 2000. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
^ The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company.
"Hauser, Sr., Eric V. December 10, 1864 -" . Multnomah County Oregon Archives Biographies . Archived from
the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
^
"Curry County Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan" (PDF) . Curry County Emergency Management. p. 2.1.26. Retrieved December 21, 2010 .
^ Allen, Cain (2006).
"Picking Cranberries at Sandlake" .
Oregon Historical Society . Retrieved December 21, 2010 .