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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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First Unitarian Church (Portland)
In 1866, the Ladies Sewing Circle, a small group of Portland women from the New England states, led by Mary Frazier, raised $2,000 for a …
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First United Methodist Church of Ashland
The First United Methodist Church was the first permanent church building in Ashland. With stained glass windows crafted by the Povey Brothers of Portland …
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Fish-Catching Cage, Trask River
This fish collecting cage and rack, was built across the Trask River in Tillamook County, Oregon in 1914, as part of a state fish hatchery …
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Fishing Nets
This photo shows Celilo Village residents Jimmy George, left, and Charley Quittoken, right, holding up fishing nets once used to catch salmon at Celilo Falls. …
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Fish Lake Canal Company
The Fish Lake Water Company was organized in Medford in 1898 to create a plan for the irrigation of more than 50,000 acres of land …
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Fishtrap Inc.
Fishtrap had its beginnings in 1987, when writers Kim Stafford, of the Northwest Writing Institute, and Peter Sears, at the Oregon Arts Commission, convened …
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Five Oaks Museum (Washington County Museum)
The Five Oaks Museum, formerly known as the Washington County Museum, is one of the oldest historical institutions in Washington County. An independent nonprofit organization, …
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Flax and Linen Industry of Oregon
From the mid-1840s until the 1950s, fields of blue-flowering flax flourished in the fertile Willamette Valley to support the only flax industry in the United …
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