On the morning of Friday, October 12, 1962—Columbus Day—a massive storm hit the coast of northern California. The storm had originated several days earlier in …

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Colwood National Golf Course in Northeast Portland, originally named Meadowbrook Golf Course, was established as an eighteen-hole private course in 1930. The growth of …

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The steamboats shown in this 1881 lithograph were a vital part of Portland’s economic life. The discovery of gold in eastern Oregon, Idaho, and Montana …

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Salmon fisheries have a long history in Oregon, going back to as many as 10,000 years—as long as salmon and humans have coexisted in the …

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The unincorporated Polk County community of Airlie began as the terminus of a railroad that planned to connect the rich farms of the southern Willamette …

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Bates was an unincorporated Oregon Lumber Company mill town in Grant County, one mile north of Austin Junction on U.S. Highway 26. In 1906, the …

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Blue River is located forty miles east of Springfield along the McKenzie Highway, near the confluence of the Blue and McKenzie Rivers. The community was …

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Dee refers to a lumber-mill town located on the Middle Fork of the Hood River, occupied from 1906 to 1959, and to the adjacent orchard …

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Dora is an unincorporated community on the East Fork of the Coquille River in east Coos County. The community was built along the historic Coos …

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Eola is three miles west of Salem, where the Willamette River bends to the east along Highway 22. A.C.R. Shaw founded the area in 1844 …

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