Laidlaw, now called Tumalo, is an unincorporated town on the Deschutes River seven miles west of Bend. Tumalo is also the name of the surrounding …

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This is a photograph of the central Oregon town known as Laidlaw in 1905.  Within a few years, the name Tumalo came into general usage, …

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The imposing Lake County courthouse is depicted a few years after its completion in 1909. The courthouse was a civic monument in a small and …

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Lake Oswego is a suburban city located eight miles southwest of Portland whose main attraction and history revolves around Oswego Lake. The city's location is …

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  Lakeport, for a brief time the largest town in Curry County, was located on Floras Lake, a 236-acre freshwater lake on the Oregon Coast ten …

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The City of Lakeview, in northern Goose Lake Valley at an elevation of 4,804 feet, calls itself Oregon’s Tallest Town. By far the largest community …

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Lakeview was named in 1876 for its view of Goose Lake, which is barely visible in the background of this photo (ca. 1910).  At that …

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The full title for this French map is L’Amérique Septentrionale Divisée en ses Principaux Etats and translates as “North America divided into its principal states.” …

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This map appeared in Stephen A.D. Puter’s 1908 book, Looters of the Public Domain, written while the author was in jail for land fraud. …

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In 1973, Oregon Senate Bill 100 established the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), with policy and administrative oversight of the state-mandated land-use planning …

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