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War Memorial, Lake County
This monument was erected at the Mitchell Recreation Area in the Fremont National Forest, Lake County, Oregon in memory of Elyse Mitchell and five children …
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Warm Springs Agency Boarding School, 1890
This photograph of the students and staff of the Warm Springs Agency Boarding School was taken in February 1890
The 1855 Treaty with the Tribes …
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Warm Springs Reservation Mill
In 1938, four years after the congressional passage of the Indian Reorganization Act, the Warm Springs tribes became officially incorporated as the Confederated Tribes of …
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Warner Pacific College
Warner Pacific College opened in 1937 as Pacific Bible College in Spokane, Washington. Within three years, founding President A.F. Gray moved the growing college to …
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Warner Valley
Warner Valley, in southeastern Oregon, is a place of expansive and unspoiled vistas, brilliant sunrises and sunsets, and some of the darkest skies in the …
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War Relocation Authority Camp at Tule Lake
During World War II, the U.S. War Relocation Authority (WRA) built ten concentration camps for Japanese Americans. One of these covered 1,100 acres of Klamath …
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Warren H. Williams (1844-1888)
Between 1869 and 1887, Warren Haywood Williams provided sophisticated architectural design to commercial, residential, and institutional clients in the Pacific Northwest. His most successful buildings …
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Warren Morton Washington (1936–2024)
A groundbreaking climate scientist, Warren M. Washington played a major role in the scientific understanding of global warming and made important contributions to modeling the …
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Warren Vaughn (1823-1907)
Born in the town of Barrington in Steuben County, New York, in 1823, Warren Nicholas Vaughn first heard about Tillamook, Oregon Territory, in the …
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Warrior Point
Warrior Point, on the north end of Sauvie Island in the Columbia River about fifteen river miles downstream from the mouth of the Willamette River …
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