Gordon Waverly Gilkey was a Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives officer during World War II and built one of the largest art print collections in …

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Native Hawaiians were among the earliest outsiders in present-day Oregon. The future state’s first resource to be exploited by outsiders was animal pelts, highly valued …

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The Iwasaki Brothers Nursery, located on the southern edge of Hillsboro in Washington County, is on the fertile Tualatin Plains along the Tualatin River. It …

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Douglas McKay, a conservative Republican, was governor of Oregon from 1949 through 1952 and U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1953 to 1956. An affable …

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Lee Mission Cemetery on D Street in northeast Salem was formally constituted in 1869 on 4.77 acres of land deeded by former Methodist missionary Reverend …

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Meier & Frank, which advertised itself as “One of America’s Great Stores,” was an economic, cultural, and civic institution in Portland for more than a …

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Born in rural Louisiana in 1845, Moses Williams joined the U.S. Army in 1866 and embarked on a thirty-one-year military career in the American West, …

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Oregon City was the first incorporated city west of the Rocky Mountains and a main terminus of the Oregon Trail. Its historic center is …

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As the Oregon State Highway Department’s first staff photographer, Ralph Gifford helped popularize the state’s newly built scenic highways. His images will forever be linked …

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Sam Simpson was a singer of love songs to Oregon. In 1899, Judge John Burnett called him “the [Robert] Burns of Oregon…who could make the …

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