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Fire Area, Portland, 1873
This map shows the twenty-two block area damaged in the Fire of 1873. The fire damage is marked in dark on a map made three …
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Fire, Ice, Water, and Wind
The craggy, wind-blown summit of Steens Mountain—which, at 9,670 feet above sea level, is the highest point in southeastern Oregon—offers a view that extends five …
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First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion is Portland's oldest African American church. Founded in 1862 as the People’s Church, the congregation first met in Mary …
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First Dwelling House in Salem, 1841
This engraving, published in a state history in 1912, depicts the house built by the Rev. Jason Lee at the present site of Salem in …
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First Methodist Church (Portland)
Methodist Episcopal Church, Portland's first church, began with seven members in 1848, and by 1960 it had grown into a forward-thinking congregation of 1,833 …
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First Methodist Church (Salem)
Founded in 1841 by Jason Lee and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Oregon Mission to the Kalapuya people, the First Methodist Church in Salem …
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First National Bank, Klamath Falls
This photograph shows the new headquarters of the First National Bank of Klamath Falls in November 1930.
At the beginning of the nationwide Depression, the …
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First Peoples in the Portland Basin
The confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers and the surrounding lowlands form the Portland Basin. Humans first inhabited the region about 11,000 years ago—small, …
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First Presbyterian Church (Portland)
First Presbyterian Church of Portland, organized in January 1854 just three years after the city was incorporated, was the third Presbyterian church in the …
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First Street, Portland
On First Street, the Hop Wo laundry was next to the Monnastes and Davis blacksmith shop. Many other towns had the same two kinds of businesses. People …
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