Editing Irrigon, Oregon (section)

==History==
Irrigon is near the site of a former Columbia River landing called ''Grande Ronde Landing'' that vied with Umatilla Landing ([[Umatilla, Oregon|Umatilla]]), {{convert|8|mi|km}} upriver, for water-transportation business. Umatilla Landing prospered but Grande Ronde Landing did not; the latter was eventually renamed ''Stokes''. In 1903, a newspaper editor, Addison Bennett, renamed the community ''Irrigon'', a [[portmanteau]] assembled from ''Irrigation'' and ''Oregon''. Bennett, who saw irrigation as important to business in the city, published its first newspaper, the ''Oregon Irrigator'', later renamed the ''[[Irrigon Irrigator]]''.<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 | pages = 501&ndash;02, 980}}</ref>

Stokes, the site of a railway station by that name, had a post office that operated from 1876 through 1899; Douglas W. Bailey served as postmaster. An Irrigon post office was established in 1903; Frank B. Holbrook was the first postmaster.<ref name="OGN"/>