Charles Axel Smith became, for a time, one of Oregon's most powerful lumbermen, buying up huge tracts of forest land and developing the largest mill …

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Portland is home to the second largest collection of cast iron architecture in the United States, just behind New York City’s historic Soho District. Cast …

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Cathlapotle is the archaeological site of a major Chinookan town located in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area, at the place where Lake River, Gee Creek, …

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Catholic Charities of Oregon, a member agency of the Catholic Charities Network, describes its work as “partnering with the most vulnerable, regardless of faith, to …

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Catlin Gabel School in Portland is the largest nondenominational private school in Oregon, with over 780 students from preschool through the twelfth grade. Considered a …

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Catlow Valley, named for nineteenth-century cattle rancher John Catlow, is a 1,300-square-mile, seemingly level-floored basin in the high-desert country of southern Harney County. A classic …

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The first major and ongoing conflict between Native groups and white resettlers in Oregon was a direct consequence of the murders by Cayuse tribesmen of …

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Chandler Bruer Watson—attorney, journalist, public servant, prospector, and historian—was southern Oregon's first conservationist. Raised in Pike County, Illinois, Watson arrived in Ashland in 1871. He …

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When Cecil Edwards became Oregon’s first legislative historian in 1976, he told the Statesman Journal that his “insatiable curiosity for gossip, rumors and oddities led …

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Celilo Falls (also known as Horseshoe Falls) was located on the mid-Columbia River about twelve miles east of The Dalles. It was part …

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