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Salem Brewery Association
The Salem Brewery Association, incorporated in 1903, was at one time the second largest brewery in Oregon and one of the largest breweries in the …
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Salem Clique
Thomas Dryer, the first editor of the Oregonian, named the Salem Clique, whom he described in the Oregonian on March 13, 1852, as …
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Salem Pioneer Cemetery
Salem originated in 1841 as the second central station of the Oregon mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The town was platted in 1846 and …
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Salem's Colored School and Little Central
The first school open to African American students in Oregon—referred to as the Colored School—was founded in March 1867 by African American residents in Salem. …
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Salem streetcar system
The first streetcars in Salem were horsecars that began running between the downtown business district and the train depot on January 15, 1889. Later that …
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Salmon
The word “salmon” originally referred to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), a species native to the North Atlantic rim and Arctic Ocean above Western …
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Salmonberry Burn, 1945
This photograph was taken in July 1945. It shows Governor Earl Snell looking on as State Forester Nelson Rogers describes the 5,000-acre Salmonberry fire. This …
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Salmon Decline, 1894
This document is an excerpt from an 1894 report by the U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries Marshall McDonald. It describes the decline of salmon …
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Salmon Fingerlings Poured into the Columbia
This 1915 photograph shows people releasing salmon fry into the Columbia River. The photograph is from the collection of Marion T. Weatherford, who wrote local …
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Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
One of Oregon’s forty-seven federally established wilderness areas, the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness Area is approximately fifty miles southeast of Portland, making it one of …
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