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Evans Products Company
Evans Products Company was one of the most successful wood products corporations in the United States in the twentieth century. Their largest, most innovative, and …
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Evelyn Crowell (1936–2017)
Evelyn Crowell was one of the first professional Black librarians in the City of Portland. A community-based activist, she was a promoter of African …
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Evelyn Sibley Lampman (1907–1980)
Evelyn Sibley Lampman was one of three Oregon writers of young adult and children’s books who were at the height of their success during the …
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Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum and Captain Michael King Smith Educational Institute, near Highway 18 in McMinnville, opened as the Evergreen Aviation Museum …
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Ewing Young (c. 1796–1841)
Ewing Young was a Santa Fe trader, a Rocky Mountain man, a California livestock trader, and one of the first Americans to permanently live in …
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Expulsion of Chinese from Oregon City, 1886
On February 22, 1886, approximately forty men gathered in Oregon City at the McLoughlin House on South Main Street, then a lodging house known as …
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Faraday Dam and Powerhouse
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 …
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Farmers' markets
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 …
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Federal Writers' Project in Oregon
The Federal Writers' Project was one of five independent branches of the Works Progress Administration, established in the summer of 1935 by President Franklin Delano …
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Fernando (Basque trickster figure)
Fernando is a trickster, the character in traditional Basque folk tales who disobeys normal behavioral rules, outsmarts a figure of authority (such as the priest), …
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