Oakesdale

Oakesdale, a town in the northwestern part of Whitman County, named by the Northern Pacific Land Company in honor of Thomas F. Oakes, Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in 1886. (.E.J. Tramill, Postmaster at Oakesdale, in Names MSS. Letter 179.)
Origin of Washington Geographic Names, 1923

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