The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., June 3, 1932, page 5
"Late Local Intelligence Told In Paragraphs"

     In name at least, The Dalles this month gained a new suburb. Notice has been given that the postoffice and community across the river known for the past forty years as Granddalles has been officially changed to North Dalles, says the Optimist.
     It was in 1893 that O.D. Taylor, who was then promoting sale of the tracts, selected the name "Granddalles" as being the most appropriate. There was a certain impressiveness in the name, it is true, but it has not served to identify the location of the community in which many nonresidents have been interested. The new name now adopted links the promising projects across the river directly with The Dalles.
     When the bridge is completed North Dalles will, indeed, be close under the wing of this city, whose citizens have fostered its development and, inasmuch as the productiveness and promise of its fertile garden tracts have been proved, its adoption by the city, so far as nomenclature is concerned, should be of mutual benefit.

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