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  • MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility

    The MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn is one of five correctional facilities overseen by the Oregon Youth Authority. Established in 1926 as the Woodburn …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Macleay Park

    Portlanders have long valued Macleay Park, in Portland’s northwest hills, as a wild oasis close to the city’s core. The nearly 140-acre park has …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Macuina Jefe de Nutka

    This engraving depicts the Mowachaht leader, Maquinna, wearing a woven hat decorated with whaling scenes and a cedar bark cape trimmed in fur, both of …

    Oregon History Project

  • Madeline DeFrees (1919-2015)

    Madeline DeFrees is an Oregon native and former nun whose poetry explores the borderlands between the religious and secular worlds and the complicated intersections of …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Madras

    The Willow Creek basin that cradles Madras held four homesteads in 1902 when John Palmehn platted the town. It was initially called Palmain, an Americanized …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mae Harrington Whitney Cardwell (1853-1929)

    Mae Harrington, the first woman to hold a position on a hospital staff in Oregon, was born in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1853. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mae Yih (1928–)

    Upon her election to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1976, Mae Yih became the first Chinese-born woman in the United States elected to a …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Making a Timber Industry

    In 1905, the business of logging had an entire building to celebrate its development. The Forestry Building was Oregon’s unique contribution to the architecture of …

    Oregon History Project

  • Malheur Indian Reservation

    This detail from an 1879 General Land Office map shows the Malheur Indian Reservation in southeastern Oregon. An 1872 executive order by President Ulysses S. …

    Oregon History Project

  • Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, 1937

    This photograph was taken in August 1937 by Ralph Gifford, a photographer for the Oregon State Highway Department. It shows the Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, …

    Oregon History Project

3220 results

  • MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility

    The MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn is one of five correctional facilities overseen by the Oregon Youth Authority. Established in 1926 as the Woodburn …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Macleay Park

    Portlanders have long valued Macleay Park, in Portland’s northwest hills, as a wild oasis close to the city’s core. The nearly 140-acre park has …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Macuina Jefe de Nutka

    This engraving depicts the Mowachaht leader, Maquinna, wearing a woven hat decorated with whaling scenes and a cedar bark cape trimmed in fur, both of …

    Oregon History Project

  • Madeline DeFrees (1919-2015)

    Madeline DeFrees is an Oregon native and former nun whose poetry explores the borderlands between the religious and secular worlds and the complicated intersections of …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Madras

    The Willow Creek basin that cradles Madras held four homesteads in 1902 when John Palmehn platted the town. It was initially called Palmain, an Americanized …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mae Harrington Whitney Cardwell (1853-1929)

    Mae Harrington, the first woman to hold a position on a hospital staff in Oregon, was born in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1853. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mae Yih (1928–)

    Upon her election to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1976, Mae Yih became the first Chinese-born woman in the United States elected to a …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Making a Timber Industry

    In 1905, the business of logging had an entire building to celebrate its development. The Forestry Building was Oregon’s unique contribution to the architecture of …

    Oregon History Project

  • Malheur Indian Reservation

    This detail from an 1879 General Land Office map shows the Malheur Indian Reservation in southeastern Oregon. An 1872 executive order by President Ulysses S. …

    Oregon History Project

  • Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, 1937

    This photograph was taken in August 1937 by Ralph Gifford, a photographer for the Oregon State Highway Department. It shows the Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, …

    Oregon History Project