Editing Enterprise, Oregon (section)

== History ==
[[File:Enterprise-Oregon-1912.jpg|thumb|right|Enterprise, c.1912]]
[[Image:Near Enterprise, Oregon.JPG|thumb|right|Near Enterprise, Oregon]]
Enterprise was [[plat]]ted in 1886,<ref name="main">{{cite book |last=Bailey |first=Barbara Ruth |title=Main Street: Northeastern Oregon |publisher=[[Oregon Historical Society]] |year=1982 |isbn=0-87595-073-6 |page=29}}</ref> and in 1887 residents considered ''Bennett Flat,'' ''Wallowa City'', ''Franklin'', and other possibilities before voting for ''Enterprise'' during a community meeting in a tent owned by a mercantile company.<ref name="OGN">{{cite book |last=McArthur |first=Lewis A. |author-link=Lewis A. McArthur |author2=Lewis L. McArthur |author2-link=Lewis L. McArthur |title=[[Oregon Geographic Names]] |orig-year=1928 |edition=7th |year=2003 |publisher=[[Oregon Historical Society]] Press |location=Portland, Oregon |isbn=0-87595-277-1 |page=333}}</ref> The name was meant to reflect "the policy of its inhabitants".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |author=Gannett, Henry |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n119 120]}}</ref> In November 1887, a post office was established in the community, and Catherine Akin became the first postmaster.<ref name="OGN"/> The city was incorporated by the [[Oregon Legislative Assembly]] on February 21, 1889.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Leeds |first=W. H. |year=1899 |title=Special Laws |journal=The State of Oregon General and Special Laws and Joint Resolutions and Memorials Enacted and Adopted by the Twentieth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly |publisher=State Printer |location=Salem, Oregon |page=858 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsCwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22ocean%20grove%22%20seaside%20oregon&pg=PA858}}</ref>