The interstate highway system changed the face of America. Although Congress had been discussing the development of an interregional highway system since the 1930s, construction …

Oregon History Project

Anthony Netboy wrote this Nov. 5, 1967 article about the Willamette Greenway Act for Northwest Magazine Sunday, a supplement to the Oregonian. Netboy, …

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Established in 1989 on the site of a former market in Bay City, on Tillamook Bay, ArtSpace Gallery is a leading promoter of twentieth-century and …

Oregon Encyclopedia

Asahel Bush was a key figure during Oregon's formative years, using the power of the press to influence the political landscape. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, …

Oregon Encyclopedia

In 1878, Asahel Bush (1824-1913)—Oregon publisher, banker, and politician—moved into his new twelve-room house in Salem as a widower with four children, two of whom …

Oregon Encyclopedia

Ashland, a city of 21,360 people in Jackson County, is situated in the Rogue River/Bear Creek Valley at the foot of the Siskiyou …

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This 1895 leaflet from Ashland’s third annual Chautauqua meeting shows the town’s Chautauqua building on one side and lists the featured speakers on the other. …

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The Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF) is a five-day film festival showing a broad range of non-studio films. The festival typically offers more than eighty …

Oregon Encyclopedia

This 1884 illustration shows the Ashland Woolen Mills. The first such enterprise in Oregon was the Willamette Woolen Manufacturing Company, which began doing business in …

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This is a photograph of the central Oregon town of Ashwood at the turn of the twentieth century, before a mining boom spurred an increase …

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