Despite the tribulations of natural resource industries since the 1980s, they are still vital to Oregon’s economy. On a whole, however, the state has shifted …

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This map is from a circa 1911 brochure promoting the “progressive and growing city” of Nyssa, located in northern Malheur County on the Idaho state …

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This case study was included as an appendix by the League of Women Voters of Portland in A Study of Awareness of the Oregon Fair …

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This photograph shows a family of Indians, identified by the photographer as Bannocks, sitting in front of a small pole-and-thatch lodge. It was taken in …

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The Faraday Powerhouse, located in Estacada on the Clackamas River, produces hydroelectricity to serve the greater Portland area and is the oldest such facility on …

Oregon Encyclopedia

This photograph shows George Rodman spreading irrigation water over his farmland near Culver on May 18, 1946. Rodman was the first farmer to receive water from …

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Oregon is home to about 120 farmers’ markets, a form of farm-direct marketing that is at once ancient and relatively new. For centuries, farmers have …

Oregon Encyclopedia

Under territorial and federal land-claim acts, white farmers took possession of large tracts of land around the lower banks of the coastal rivers and their …

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Not all of the Klamath Project lands became available for homesteading after World War II. Conservationists and hunters did not want the wildlife refuges on …

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John Staunton’s father was a West Virginia stockbroker who came to the dry climate of this region for his health. As a veteran of World …

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