The Sherman County Courthouse in Moro is one of only three county courthouses in Oregon to be used continuously since its construction in the nineteenth …

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Sherwood is located on the traces of the Oregon City–Lafayette Wagon Trail, which cut through the A.Z. Hall Donation Land Claim of the late …

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This photo shows Bend, Oregon’s two largest lumber mills.  The Brooks-Scanlon mill is on the far side of the Deschutes River, in the background of …

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In 1916, the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company built a mill on the Deschutes River in Bend and began heavy cutting on more than 200,000 acres of …

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This undated photograph, probably taken in the 1900s, is a portrait of Shinzaburo Ban, a prominent Japanese businessman who lived in Portland from the 1890s …

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Shinzaburo Ban was a Japanese businessman who was instrumental in bringing people of Japanese ancestry to Oregon. Though primarily known as a labor contractor, he …

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This illustration was published in a short-lived weekly newspaper produced by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation (CRSC). Win the War, later renamed The Pilot …

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The shipyards at Grant-Smith-Porter Ship Co. still show considerable activity just after WWI.  Wartime shipbuilding provided a bright exception to Portland’s otherwise lackluster economy during …

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Approximately three thousand ships have met their fate in Oregon waters. Many wrecks occurred at river bars where strong currents carrying sand and other deposits …

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A humble wife, mother, and public servant in Hood River, Shizue Iwatsuki was also an internationally recognized poet. Born in Okayama, Japan, in 1896, …

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