In its heyday, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the town of Butteville, Oregon, was a major sternwheeler port on the lower Willamette …

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The Butteville Store was not the first trading post or mercantile in the community of Butteville in Marion County, but it was among the earliest …

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“The Tiger of the Senate,” a name given fondly to U.S. Senator, lawyer, and educator, Wayne Lyman Morse, is shown here contributing to a “blind” …

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Byron A. White practiced chiropractic medicine in McMinnville for forty-one years, winning considerable recognition as what was known as a "bloodless surgeon." It was a …

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This photograph looks west on Jacksonville’s main business street, California Street, about 1885. The photographer, Swiss-born Peter Britt, arrived in Jacksonville in 1852 to mine …

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Camas is a North American bulb-forming geophyte whose greatest diversity lies in Oregon, home to over 65 percent of the named species. The names Camassia …

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This drawing of the common camas (Camassia quamash ) was produced for the Oregon Historical Society by staff artist Skip Enge. The blue flowers …

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Camp Abbot, located on the Deschutes River several miles south of Bend, was a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers training center where combat engineers trained …

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This photograph by U.S. Army Lt. Lorenzo Lorain provides a striking view of Camp Day, a temporary encampment in the Klamath Basin used by the …

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From 1867 to 1880, the U.S. Army’s Camp Harney provided a strategic military presence in southeast Oregon that—under the auspices of protecting EuroAmerican mining, residents, …

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