Rhododendron, Oregon

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Rhododendron is an unincorporated tourist-oriented community within the Mt. Hood Corridor in Oregon, located between Government Camp and Zigzag along United States Highway 26.

It was founded in the early 1900s as Rowe, named after a mayor of Portland, Oregon, H.S. Rowe, who established the Rhododendron Inn there. It was renamed Rhododendron in 1920 at the request (or insistence) of the U.S. Post Office.