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Vortex I music festival
During the war-hot summer of 1970, thousands of young people began streaming toward Clackamas County's Milo McIver State Park to attend Vortex I, a state-sponsored …
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Voyageurs
In the history of the North American fur trade, only the mountain man rivals the voyageur in myth, romance, and folklore. Beyond the singing, …
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Waldo Building (Portland)
The Waldo Building (also known as the Waldo Block), on the corner of Southwest Second Avenue and Washington Street in Portland, is notable for …
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Waldo (city)
Located just south of Cave Junction and a few miles north of the California state line, the town of Waldo grew out of a large …
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Waldo Hills
The Waldo Hills are situated on the east side of the mid Willamette Valley, beginning nine miles from Salem. The hills run north …
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Waldo House
The Daniel and Melinda Waldo House, constructed in 1854 in the Waldo Hills, east of Salem near present-day Macleay, was the home of the …
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Waldo Lake
Located astride the backbone of the Cascade Mountains in the Willamette National Forest, Waldo Lake is a child of the sky, nourished wholly by …
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Wallace House (trading post)
Wallace House, built in 1812 north of the Kalapuya village of Chemeketa, was the first known building of European-American design in the Willamette Valley. …
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Walla Walla Basin
Long before the wheat and cattle ranches, the orchards and onion farms, before the vineyards and restaurants and shopping malls, when this place was occupied …
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Walla Walla Treaty Council 1855
The treaty council held at Waiilatpu (Place of the Rye Grass) in the Walla Walla Valley in May and June of 1855 forever changed the …
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