Neahkahnie Mountain, about twenty miles south of Seaside, is a prominent landmark in Oregon Coast geography, history, and lore. Standing 1,680 feet high, the basalt …

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Portland became a mature processing and distribution center between the 1880s and 1914 as it joined the new national railroad network. As work proceeded after …

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The Oregon and California Railroad (O&C) was the first railroad to connect Oregon with California. Construction of the line began in Portland during the spring …

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Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Northwest Coast. Vol. 1: 1543-1800. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1884. Beck, David R.M. Seeking Recognition: The Termination …

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“The Oregon boundary question,” historian Frederick Merk concluded, “was a diplomatic problem involving a kernel of reality and an enormous husk.” The eventual existence of …

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The illustration above shows a party of otter hunters near Coos Bay in 1856. It was common to shoot otter from the shore as depicted …

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Pacific University, one of the oldest universities in the American West, was founded in 1849 in present-day Forest Grove, about twenty-five miles west of …

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Peter Britt is best known as an accomplished photographer and horticulturist in Jackson County. But according to his biographer, he was also "by turns, miner, …

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Peter Hardeman Burnett was a leader on the Oregon Trail, a town-builder, a legislator, and the region’s first judge. Throughout his professional career, he easily …

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Portland, with a 2020 population of 652,503 within its city limits and 2,226,009 in the seven-county metropolitan area, was platted on the west bank of …

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