Brothers, Oregon

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Location of Brothers, Oregon
A row of colorful flags marks the model rocket launch range in the desolate sagebrush country
A row of colorful flags marks the model rocket launch range in the desolate sagebrush country

Brothers is an unincorporated community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States on U.S. Route 20. It is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 1990 census, Brothers had a population of 41 people.[citation needed]

[edit] History

Brothers post office was established in 1913.[1] One source says that the name comes from several families of brothers who settled in the area, while another notes that there was a local Three Brothers Sheep Camp, named for three nearby hills that had the Three Sisters mountains looming behind them.[1]

Vast tracts of uninhabited land covered with sagebrush surround Brothers, which are often used for model and high power rocket launches.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur [1928] (2003). Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition, Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press, 116. ISBN 0-87595-277-1. 
  2. ^ OregonRocketry.

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