The 'Postage, People, and Place' exhibit at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum explores the impact of the U.S. Postal Service on Lincoln City, Oregon. Before becoming a unified city, the area comprised several smaller communities, many of which were named after their post offices. Highlights include how towns like Taft were named after past figures and how the first postmaster, Julia Dodson, contributed to the local character with her rose gardens. The exhibit emphasizes the social role of postal services in community building.
"A couple of the towns, like Oceanlake and Taft, didn't even have names until they had to pick one for their post office," said museum director Christopher Melton.
"It was called Rose Lodge because of all her roses," Melton said. "She grew so many roses some people still have plants that descended from her roses."
"One of the things she wrote about was how every day there was a parade of all the people coming into town from their houses to pick up their mail and socialize and gossip," he said.
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