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Crooked River Project
In 1956, with the help of Oregon senators Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger, Crook County landowners and officials persuaded Congress to authorize and fund the …
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Cross-dressing Performers at Music Hall
This photograph of cross-dressing performers at Portland's Music Hall ran on the first page of the May 17, 1950, edition of the Oregon Journal. …
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Crowds Line Downtown LaGrande Streets, 1908
The intersection of Elm Street with the principal commercial artery of La Grande, Adams Street, appears in this 1908 photograph. There is a crowd and …
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Crown/Centennial Mills
For eighty years, Crown Mills, known as Centennial Mills after 1949, was one of the largest producers of flour and milled grain in the Pacific …
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Cruzatte Wounds Captain Lewis
This excerpt from the journal of Meriwether Lewis describes a hunting accident on August 11, 1806, during which Lewis was shot by one of his …
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Cuban Missile Crisis Protest
This peace march was held on October 24, 1962 in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Two days earlier President John Kennedy had announced the …
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Cultural Change
Women’s work and roles have grown and broadened dramatically since World War II. The number of women working outside the home in Hermiston increased by …
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Cultural Enterprises
In addition to its rich literary heritage, Oregon has a long history of other cultural enterprises. German, Scandinavian, and numerous other ethnic organizations proliferated in …
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Culver
The town of Culver, north of Haystack Butte in south-central Jefferson County, had its beginings as Perryville in the 1880s. It was named after Perry …
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Cutler City
Cutler City, the southernmost neighborhood of Lincoln City on the Oregon coast, was established in the early twentieth century as an independent townsite on land …
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