Carol Menken came to Oregon State University to study broadcasting, grateful for a basketball scholarship that would pay for her tuition. She would graduate OSU …

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The Carpenter Foundation was first established in southern Oregon in 1942 to support recreational opportunities for military personnel. In 1958, the fund was reorganized as …

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Carrie Sweetser was a watercolorist, a life-long diarist, and her botanist husband's devoted travel companion. She was married for fifty-two years to Albert Raddin Sweetser …

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For nearly twenty years, Oregon has been the home to Carson Helicopters, Inc., which operates a fleet of heavy-lift helicopters from its headquarters in Grants …

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The cartographic history of Oregon as a place in the Pacific Northwest began long before European visitation to the region. Mapmakers initially conceptualized the presence …

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The lithograph above is derived from a sketch of Mountain House, a landmark farm and stage stop along the California-Oregon Trail. The house was built …

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This wooden mortar is of Wasco or Wishram design.  Prior to moving to the Warm Springs Reservation, the closely related Wasco and Wishram peoples lived on …

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This map, entitled “A New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries 1778,” was a centerpiece of Jonathan Carver’s Travels Through the Interior Parts …

Oregon History Project

A massive ground movement known as the Bonneville Landslide, which occurred about 1200 AD, briefly blocked the Columbia River. The river subsequently broke through …

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The Cascade mountain system extends from northern California to central British Columbia. In Oregon, it comprises the Cascade Range, which is 260 miles long and, …

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