Clackamas County
Clackamas County ( ) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City. The county was named after the na ...
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Oregon
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History
Cottrell was founded by Georgia Andrews, whose maiden name was Cottrell, the wife of Charles Ida Andrews. The couple was wed in 1893). Georgia and her mother Carrie Arabella (Townsley) Cottrell moved to Oregon from
Milwaukee
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after Georgia's father and Carrie's husband George Cottrell, was killed in a railroad accident. Georgia typically went by and wrote her name as 'Georgie'. Her and her mother both died in Ashland in 1953 and 1943, respectively.
There was a Cottrell post office from 1894 until 1904; it is believed to have closed when
Rural Free Delivery
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was extended to the area. There is also a Cottrell Road and a Cottrell school a mile east of the locale, and there was a Cottrell station on the defunct Mount Hood Electric Railway line about a mile to the north. The now-abandoned station was across the county line in
Multnomah County
Multnomah County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 815,428. Multnomah County is part of the Portland metropolitan area. The state's smallest and most populous county, it ...
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Johnson Creek (Willamette River)
Johnson Creek is a tributary of the Willamette River in the Portland metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the drainage basin of the Columbia River, its catchment basin, catchment consists of of mostly urban land occupied by ...