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Buckhorn Mineral Springs Resort
Buckhorn Mineral Springs is on Emigrant Creek, about eleven miles southeast of Ashland in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, located in a part of Oregon where …
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Buffalo Soldiers at Vancouver Barracks
For thirteen months beginning in 1899, a company of 103 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 24th Infantry—one of four African American regiments known as Buffalo …
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Building an Urban Center
An investment in the early 1880s by William Ladd illustrates how local bankers made fortunes through real estate speculation and political influence. Ladd invested $10,000 …
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Building Materials: Wood, Brick, Stone
Wood remained far and away the primary building material in Oregon during these decades. Brick was frequently used for commercial buildings, and combining brick masonry …
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Built Environment Bibliography
Abbott, Carl. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Abbott, Carl. Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth …
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Bull Run Dam Construction
The third Bull Run Dam (referred to as Dam 1), on the Bull Run River, east of Portland, shown here in November of 1928, was …
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Buncom
Buncom (also Bunkum, Buncombe or Buncomville) is situated at the confluence of Sterling Creek and the Little Applegate River in southwest Jackson County, Oregon. What …
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Bundy's Baths and Windemuth Portland Swimming Holes
From 1898 to 1924, the Willamette River near Ross Island, south of downtown Portland, was a popular place to swim, dive, canoe, and play …
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Burnett Site (Lake Oswego)
The Burnett Site (35CL96), located on a terrace above the Willamette River in a private residential neighborhood within the City of Lake Oswego, is …
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Burns
Located in Oregon’s High Desert, Burns is the county seat of Harney County, the largest county (in physical size) in Oregon. The town is …
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