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Native American Agricultural Labor
As early as the 1830s, when French Canadians associated with the Hudson's Bay Company began establishing the French Prairie farming region in the Willamette Valley …
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William Henry Rector (1806-1890)
William Henry Rector was an Oregon pioneer, builder, business innovator, and political figure. He helped blaze the trail south of Mount Hood in 1845 and, …
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Yaquina Head Lighthouse
The U.S. Lighthouse Board completed Yaquina Head Lighthouse in 1873 on Yaquina Head, a narrow peninsula of Columbia basalt that juts nearly a mile out …
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Whale Cove
Whale Cove is a small, nonnavigable bay in Lincoln County, approximately a mile and a half south of the town of Depoe Bay. Only about …
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Bandon
Located at the mouth of the Coquille River in Coos County, Oregon, Bandon is on the south side of the harbor and on headlands above …
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Camp Meriwether
Camp Meriwether is a youth recreational and educational facility in northwest Oregon on a nearly 800-acre forested beachfront property about twenty miles southwest of the …
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Coos Bay
The Coos Bay estuary is a semi-enclosed, elongated series of sloughs and tidewater streams that drains approximately 825 square miles of southern Oregon's rugged Coast …
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Oregon Donation Land Law
When Congress passed the Oregon Donation Land Law in 1850, the legislation set in motion procedures for the disposal of public lands that left a …
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Point Adams
Located at the mouth of the Columbia River and marking the extreme northwestern corner of Oregon, Point Adams is a pivotal landmark in the geography …
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Wheeler
The City of Wheeler lies on the eastern shore of Nehalem Bay on Oregon’s north coast in Tillamook County. In the nineteenth century, only a …
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