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  • City of Banks

    Banks is a small town about twenty-five miles west of Portland. The seeds of the community were sown in the mid nineteenth century, when …

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  • City of North Bend

    The City of North Bend is located on about five square miles at the north bend of the Coos Bay, bounded by the bay …

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  • Clackamas Wilderness

    The rugged upland watershed of the Clackamas River lies within the Mount Hood National Forest. The river winds through the northern Oregon Cascades about thirty …

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  • Columbia River Gorge

    The Columbia River Gorge is a striking natural landscape of mountains, bluffs, and cliffs that border the Columbia River as it passes through the Cascade …

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  • Columbia River Treaty (1964)

    The high-voltage power lines that march across central Oregon, linking Columbia River dams to Los Angeles, California, are “proof of the power of cooperation and …

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  • Echo

    The town of Echo, in Umatilla County, is located at the historic crossroads of Indian trails and the Oregon Trail on the Umatilla River. …

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  • Egyptian Theatre

    The Egyptian is a vaudeville-era theater located at 229 South Broadway in Coos Bay. In 1925, John C. Noble and Robert Marsden Jr. of …

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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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  • Fort Dalles

    Established as a small U.S. Army post in 1850 on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River near Wascopam Mission, Fort Dalles was the primary …

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  • Fossil

    The town of Fossil is the county seat of Wheeler County and the cultural and economic piston for a large geographical area. The town comes …

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