Buckhorn Mineral Springs is on Emigrant Creek, about eleven miles southeast of Ashland in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, located in a part of Oregon where …

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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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Buncom (also Bunkum, Buncombe or Buncomville) is situated at the confluence of Sterling Creek and the Little Applegate River in southwest Jackson County, Oregon. What …

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From 1898 to 1924, the Willamette River near Ross Island, south of downtown Portland, was a popular place to swim, dive, canoe, and play …

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The Burnett Site (35CL96), located on a terrace above the Willamette River in a private residential neighborhood within the City of Lake Oswego, is …

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Located in Oregon’s High Desert, Burns is the county seat of Harney County, the largest county (in physical size) in Oregon. The town is …

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Bushnell University was founded in Eugene in 1895 by Eugene C. Sanderson, a preacher and educator in the Christian Church. He served as its …

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Bush’s Pasture Park and the Bush Conservatory in Salem are part of the history of the settlement of Oregon; the park’s designation as a public …

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Butte Falls, a community of slightly over 400 people, is the smallest incorporated city in Jackson County. Located on the densely forested Big Butte Plateau …

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In its heyday, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the town of Butteville, Oregon, was a major sternwheeler port on the lower Willamette …

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