Stand By Me, a classic of 1980s American cinema, was filmed mostly in and around Brownsville, Oregon, in the summer of 1985. The …

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Scientist, inventor, and astronaut Stanley G. Love, a native of Eugene, has had a distinguished career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He …

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This photograph shows Stanley Moore with his wife in 1953. Stanley Moore was a distinguished philosophy professor and the most visible Oregonian investigated by anti-communists …

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A first-class U.S. Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife research facility, the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range is a 28,000-acre enclosure of …

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In 1891, after 27 years of dedicated fund raising, the Library Association of Portland opened this two-story, solid stone building on Stark  (now Harvey Milk), …

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Since the Star Theater opened in Portland in May 1911, it has operated as a silent movie house, a burlesque club, an adult film theater, …

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Starvation Creek, with its spectacular 186-foot waterfall, flows north a few miles from Viento Ridge into the Columbia River, about eight miles west of …

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Since 1905, the State Library of Oregon in Salem has worked to develop library services for all Oregonians. The library also serves as the library …

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In all of American history, only two states have been formed from older states that were already admitted to the Union:  Maine (from Massachusetts, …

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The “State of Jefferson” was a publicity stunt organized in 1935 by disaffected residents of southern Oregon and northern California who were concerned that Salem …

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