The unincorporated community of McKenzie Bridge is located along the McKenzie Highway (Route 126) at milepost 50. The location, according to Oregon Geographic Names, …

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Roy is a small, rural community in Washington County, about three miles southeast of Banks. The community is named after the Roy family, early …

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Verboort is a small, unincorporated community about three miles northeast of Forest Grove. In 1846, famine and poverty in the southern Netherlands propelled a …

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The unincorporated community of Vida is located along the McKenzie Highway (Route 126), just east of Goodpasture Covered Bridge. The community development at Vida is …

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On October 11, 1845, Joel Palmer wrote about a ravine on Mount Hood: “The manner of descending is to turn directly to the right, …

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While there have been scores of industrial settlements and communities in Oregon, there have been few planned company towns. By conventional definition, company towns are …

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When the first American and European explorers sailed to the Pacific Northwest, they traded with Native people for essential food items, including salmon. Seagoing and …

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Of the several Chinook men called Concomly at one time or another, the most famous was the headman located on Baker's Bay, on the north …

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In the summer of 1903, Dr. Francis Pieper, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, gave this directive to the Northwest convention of parishes: “You must …

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Conde B. McCullough, born in Dakota Territory in 1887, was raised and educated in Iowa, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering from Iowa …

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