Continuing in our steamboat to the head of the Willamette navigation, we pass the little towns of peoria and Harrisburg, and at last reach Eugene City.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
Miss Abbott records this historical fact: "It was on the first day of June, 1858, the month of flowers, of song and of bridals, in the then quiet hamlet of peoria, whose shores are laved by the waters of the peaceful Illinois river and whose sun-kissed hills melt away into the clouds-it was then and there that I was ushered into life."
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
Now, don't laugh-that's peoria!
"The Birds' Christmas Carol"
Kate Douglas Wiggin