The expeditionary flotilla got underway in May 1804, leaving from the St. Louis area and heading up the Missouri in a keelboat and pirogues. They …

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Throughout the 1990s, central Oregon reached one of the highest rates of growth in the state. Between 2010 and 2013, Deschutes County population increased by …

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This ca. 1943 photograph, taken by Ray Atkeson, shows Iona Murphy welding in an assembly building at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland. During World …

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This photograph shows Ira Keller (left) and Mayor Terry Schrunk (center) looking over an architectural model of a proposal for the redevelopment of the South …

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The Keller Fountain at Southwest Fourth and Clay in Portland memorializes Ira Keller, the long-time, autocratic chair of the Portland Development Commission (PDC). Keller—controversial, committed, …

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The Ira Keller Fountain has been a favorite feature of the Portland landscape since it opened in 1970.  Its cascading waters create an inviting backdrop …

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Between 10,000 and 15,000 people of Iranian heritage live in Oregon; of those, 3,000 to 4,000 residents were born in Iran. Most Iranian Americans in …

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This photograph of Tommy McCreesh playing an eighteenth-century Irish fiddle in his Florence home was taken by Revell Carr in July 1998.  Carr also interviewed …

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Iron Gate Dam, pictured here under construction in 1961, is one of seven dams on the Klamath River used by the Department of Interior’s Klamath …

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Before there was Gideon v. Wainwright or an Oregon public defender, there was Irvin Goodman. From the late 1920s until his death in 1958, Goodman …

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