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  • S.S. Star of Oregon

    The S.S. Star of Oregon was among the first three Liberty Ships built in the United States and the first launched by Henry J. Kaiser’s …

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  • Sacagawea

    Sacagawea was a member of the Agaideka (Lemhi) Shoshone, who lived in the upper Salmon River Basin in present-day Idaho. In about 1800, she was …

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  • Sagebrush Symphony

    The Sagebrush Symphony Orchestra of Harney County was a bright spot of musical education for rural children in southeastern Oregon in the years before World …

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  • Sahomi Tachibana (1924–)

    Sahomi Tachibana is a Japanese American master teacher and performer of Nihonbuyo (traditional Japanese dance) and the regional folk dances of Japan. When she arrived …

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  • Salal

    Both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote about salal (Gaultheria shallon), which they first encountered on the Oregon Coast near Astoria in 1806. They …

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  • Salem's Colored School and Little Central

    The first school open to African American students in Oregon—referred to as the Colored School—was founded in March 1867 by African American residents in Salem. …

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  • Salem - Astoria Military Road

    As white settlement grew in the lower Willamette Valley during the mid-1800s, so did the desire for a road to the seaport of Astoria that …

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  • Salem Brewery Association

    The Salem Brewery Association, incorporated in 1903, was at one time the second largest brewery in Oregon and one of the largest breweries in the …

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  • Salem Clique

    Thomas Dryer, the first editor of the Oregonian, named the Salem Clique, whom he described in the Oregonian on March 13, 1852, as …

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  • Salem Pioneer Cemetery

    Salem originated in 1841 as the second central station of the Oregon mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The town was platted in 1846 and …

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