The Multnomah County Poor Farm in Troutdale was built in 1911 to replace Multnomah County's first home for the destitute, the Hillside Farm in Portland …

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While the exact date of this photograph of Multnomah Falls is unknown, careful study determines it was taken between 1914, when the stone footbridge in …

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"Multnomah" is a word familiar to Oregonians as the name of a county and a waterfall, among other places. Less well known is its origin …

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Multnomah Stadium—also known as Civic Stadium, Portland General Electric (PGE) Park, Jeld-Wen Field, and Providence Park—was built in 1926 between Southwest 18th and 20th Avenues …

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Near Laurelhurst Park in Portland, above the street signs at Southeast Thirty-First Street and Pine, is a two-sided topper featuring the smiling face of …

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Myra Albert Wiggins was a painter and photographer who gained recognition when she was named to Alfred Stieglitz's famed Photo-Secession, an elite group of American …

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Oregon-myrtle (Umbellularia californica) grows along the Pacific Coast from Douglas County, Oregon, to San Diego, California, in the Coast and Klamath mountains and along …

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The Oregon myrtle (Umbellularia californica) grows in a ninety-square-mile area of southern Oregon and in much of California, where it is known as the …

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This flier was distributed by protesters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on September 30 and October 4, 1963, at …

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The Naltunnetunne lived on Oregon’s South Coast just north of the Chetco River prior to their removal to the Siletz Indian Reservation in the mid-1850s. …

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