1775.—Adams Point.—Discovered by Heceta and called Cape Frondoso (Leafy Cape).
1792.—Capt. Gray subsequently entered the river and named it Point Adams.—(Life on Puget Sound,—Leighton, page 48. Pacific States, vol. 22, page 163).
1792.—Admiralty Inlet.—Named by Vancouver for the Board of Admiralty.—(Life on Puget Sound, p. 155).
1766-9.—Alaska.—Named by Russians.—(Willamette Valley, page 62). The name is derived from a Russian corruption of an Aleutian word, "Alakshak," which signifies Continent, or a large country. The Russian version of the term was "Aliaska," and it applied only to the prominent peninsula jutting out from the continent. Made a general term by the United States.—(Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, page 157).
1507.—America.—First applied to the new world in a work entitled "Cosmographiæ Instructio, etc., in super quatuor Americi Vespucii Navigationes," written by Marti Waldseemuller, under the assumed name of Hylacomylus and printed at Saint Die, in Lorraine.—(History of Oregon and California,—Greenhow, page 48).
1808.—American Fur Company organized.—(Burrows' Oregon, page 58).
1846.—Applegate, or Southern Route.—Constructed by Jesse Applegate.—(Pacific States, vol 22, page 642).
1811.—Astoria founded by John Jacob Astor, April 12.—(Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, page 737. History of the Willamette Valley, page 153).
1813.—Captured by the English and name changed to St. George.—(Burrows' Oregon, page 63).
1818.—Repossessed by the United States.—(Burrows' Oregon, page 65).