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How did the city of Eugene get its name?

Last updated March 20, 2021 by ZagBot Comment

The city of Eugene, Oregon, is named after Eugene Franklin Skinner, one of the area’s first white settlers in 1846.

Skinner built a cabin in an elevated location on the west bank of the Willamette River, still known today as Skinner Butte, where he operated a trading post, and had it registered as a post office in 1850.

1851 saw the town of Eugene City being laid out, incorporated as a city in 1862, and its name later shortened to Eugene in 1889. Skinner died in 1864 and is buried in Eugene’s Masonic Cemetery. A life size bronze sculpture of Eugene Skinner, seated on a block of basalt rock from Skinner Butte, by local sculptor Jim Carpenter, was placed outside Eugene Public Library in 2002.

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