When the last visitor walked out the gates on October 15, Portlanders could be especially satisfied at the impression that the city and its extravaganza …

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Lorane is a small, rural community in Lane County a few miles from the headwaters of the Siuslaw River, approximately 22 miles southwest of Eugene …

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The annual Lord's Acre Sale is an event that began in 1946 as a means to fund construction of the Powell Butte Community Church's first …

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Elizabeth Lord (1887-1976) and Edith Schryver (1901-1984) formed Lord & Schryver in 1929, the first firm of women landscape architects in the Pacific Northwest. Based …

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The Cayuse, especially, resented the growing number of settlers coming across the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and the Whitman missionaries, whom they blamed for …

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As reservation lands dwindled during the late nineteenth century, Native Americans moved to places where they could make a living, working as hop pickers, trappers, …

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Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism. Known for variations of Surrealism and Cubism …

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Louise Mohan Bryant’s eight years in Oregon decided the direction of her life. Born on December 5, 1885, she arrived in the state in 1907 …

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Louis Forniquet Henderson was one of Oregon's most important early botanists. During his long and vigorous career, he collected plants in virtually every corner of …

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This map was published in a 1911 book titled Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States. Maps like this appear …

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