{"id":773,"date":"2011-10-26T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peachylife.net\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-10-26T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:00:47","slug":"spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of visit<\/strong>: May 29, 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Population<\/strong>: 160 (2010 Census)<\/p>\n<p>You might think that Spray is named because of a nearby waterfall or river rapid. But it&#8217;s actually named after John Fremont Spray, who settled in the area in the late 1800s. In 1898 he built a horse-drawn ferry to cross the John Day River. In 1900 he purchased a piece of land known as Hogan Bottom, along the John Day River. He also purchased the land where the town of Spray would eventually be established.<\/p>\n<p>The town was platted in 1900 and he built a store, hotel, dance hall, and saloon. When the post office opened he was the first postmaster. He was evidently a tireless advocate for settling the area, inducing people to move to Spray. Today Spray is a little town a long way from anywhere, best known for the annual rodeo held on Memorial Day weekend, which is also the weekend I happened to be visiting. I didn&#8217;t check out the rodeo, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Welcome to Spray by Just Peachy!, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/6169707656\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6155\/6169707656_f68203f160_z.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to Spray\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Spray Pioneer Museum by Just Peachy!, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/6169173541\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6164\/6169173541_4dedc14a40_z.jpg\" alt=\"Spray Pioneer Museum\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Spray Pioneer Museum is in an old church and just happened to be open the day I was visiting!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Spray Post Office by Just Peachy!, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/6169707974\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6170\/6169707974_1d94aa2fee_z.jpg\" alt=\"Spray Post Office\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSpray Post Office<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Union High School by Just Peachy!, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/6169173921\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6179\/6169173921_fdb7ed9730_z.jpg\" alt=\"Union High School\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUnion High School<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Pretty church by Just Peachy!, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/6169708176\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6168\/6169708176_b6ea509eac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Pretty church\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAssembly of God Church<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"For Sale by Just Peachy!, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cheryl_hill\/6169173495\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6154\/6169173495_cb7e2ef89e_z.jpg\" alt=\"For Sale\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSomeone had painted a grin on the bumper of this truck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=spray,+or&#038;hl=en&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=46.630055,114.169922&#038;vpsrc=0&#038;hnear=Spray,+Wheeler,+Oregon&#038;t=m&#038;z=15\" target=\"_blank\">Map of Spray<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peachylife.net\/blog\/oregontownsproject\/\" target=\"_self\">Oregon Towns Project<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of visit: May 29, 2011 Population: 160 (2010 Census) You might think that Spray is named because of a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/spray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spray<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}