Located in Eugene on the University of Oregon (UO) campus, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History traces its origins to 1876, when Thomas Condon …

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"Founded on a bluff and run on that principle," as historian Jim Covert writes, the University of Portland was born on the morning of September …

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The women’s soccer team is the most successful athletic club at the University of Portland (UP), with multiple national championships and other awards. The team …

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The University of Western States has been a fixture of the Oregon healthcare community since 1904. The college began at the turn of the twentieth …

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The Untide Press (1943-1951) was a small poetry press founded at Camp Angel, a Civilian Public Service (CPS) site near Waldport. It was one of …

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The Corps left Fort Clatsop on March 23, 1806, in a hurry to reach Nez Perce country and cross the mountains that had so tortured …

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This photograph was taken by Harano Studio of Ontario, Oregon, in March 1954. It shows Lee Gibson, Allen Berends, and Elden Berends, all from Marsing, …

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Each urban area in Oregon is required to define an Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). Housing tracts, shopping malls, and other kinds of urban development are …

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The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of Native peoples. These include those of Chinookan-speaking (or Kiksht-speaking) peoples, such as the Multnomah, Cascade, …

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This March 10, 1920, photograph shows Oregon lawyer William S. U’Ren defending members of the Portland Communist Labor Party against charges of violating the state …

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