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  • North Palestine Baptist Church (Benton County)

    Modest country churches are rare on the twenty-first century Oregon landscape. The North Palestine Baptist Church in Adair Village, built in about 1883 and …

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  • Olmsted Portland Park Plan

    In the late nineteenth century, Portland's City Park (soon to be named Washington Park) offered visitors grand views of the "emerald compass," the mountains …

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  • Buffalo Soldiers at Vancouver Barracks

    For thirteen months beginning in 1899, a company of 103 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 24th Infantry—one of four African American regiments known as Buffalo …

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  • Caralyn B. Shelton (1876–1936)

    Oregon Governor Caralyn B. Shelton is recognized as the first woman acting governor in the United States. She served in that position during the transition …

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  • Harriet "Hattie" Redmond (1862-1952)

    Harriet “Hattie” Redmond was a leader in the long struggle for Oregon woman suffrage, especially during the successful campaign of 1912. The right to …

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  • Holmes v. Ford

    On April 16, 1852, a former slave named Robin Holmes filed suit against his white former owner, Nathaniel Ford, in the only slavery case adjudicated …

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  • Japanese Ancestral Society

    In the early 1900s, spurred on largely by railroad construction, farming, and the lumber industry, Japanese immigration to Oregon was on the rise. While only …

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  • John Mathews (c. 1816–1885)

    Born into slavery in North Carolina in 1818, John Dudley Mathews (née John Mask) was a stock breeder and grain farmer and a respected …

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  • Joseph Gale (1807-1881)

    Joseph Gale was a western explorer, trapper, settler, politician, and entrepreneur, and he was a member of the Oregon Provisional Government Executive Committee in 1843-1844, …

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  • Letitia Carson (1814-1818–1888)

    Letitia Carson, a nineteenth-century farmer and homesteader, was one of the first Black women to settle in Oregon. In the 1850s, she brought two successful …

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