Indeed there was. I was born at that very hospital. In 1963.
Two versions. One is that Dr. Elijah White said he named it, for John C. Spencer, the then U.S. Secretary of War. A later version says it was named for a Hudson's Bay employee named Spencer who was killed ther by Indians.
"Eugene" .
No Oregon is not named after organ.
The following states have an 'Oregon': Illinois Missouri Ohio Wisconsin There is an 'Oregon City' in California and Oregon. There is an 'Oregon Township' in Michigan and Pennsylvania. There is also a town named 'Oregon' in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
No, there is no city called Oregon in Maine.
467 cities are in Oregon
General Ulysses Grant named the town "Grants Pass" when he rode thru Oregon with his soldiers.
Yes, Neanderthals were named after the Neander Valley in Germany where their remains were first discovered in 1856.
The Trailblazers are named for the Oregon Trail
there is a childrens hospital named after him.
No. One did. It was named after the place it was first found.
Beacuse it went to Oregon. But many trails branched off to other places.