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"How Depoe Bay was named-- There is no tarrying place on the Oregon coastline more popular with motorists than is Depoe Bay. It is an astonishment, the secret little harbor, sheltered by forest and sea cliff, with its narrow green water channel to the thundering ocean. This Lincoln County small-craft harbor was named for one of the original proprietors of the Oregon county...Charles DePoe was a Siletz Indian...the wife of Charles DePoe was Minerva, of the Siletz and Chippewa people, and to these twain, nearly seventy years ago, certain lands were allotted around and about the secret bay. Charles DePoe was a tribal judge, and chief. He was given the name "depot" because he worked at the military train depot near Toledo, Oregon.
Oregonian
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