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  • Heceta Head Lighthouse

    Heceta Head Lighthouse stands 205 feet above the Pacific Ocean on a bluff carved out of the west side of 1,000-foot-high Heceta Head, twelve miles …

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  • Henry Yelkus (c. 1843–1913)

    Henry Yelkus (also spelled Yalkus, Yelkes, Yelkis, Yal-kus, and Yelcus), a member of the Molalla Tribe, lived at Dickey Prairie, southeast of present-day Molalla, …

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  • Heppner

    Heppner, the self-styled "Gateway to the Blues," is located on Oregon Highway 74 on Willow Creek between the Blue Mountains and the Columbia River Gorge. …

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  • Hillcrest Orchard

    Hillcrest Orchard has been the name of a farm on the slopes of Roxy Ann Peak in the Rogue River Valley since 1903. It was …

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  • Historic Prineville Roads (1870s–1930s)

    Prineville, the seat of Crook County in central Oregon, was established in the 1870s as an agricultural and ranching settlement. The town was platted …

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  • Historic Umatilla County Library Building

    The historic Umatilla County Library building in Pendleton was built in 1916 and was designed by Portland architect Folger Johnson, with local supervisory assistance …

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  • Hjalmar Hvam (1902-1996)

    Skiing enthusiasts in Portland just before World War II knew the name Hjalmar Hvam as readily as most people recognize the names of professional athletes. …

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  • Homer Davenport (1867-1912)

    Homer Calvin Davenport was one of the most important and influential political cartoonists working in the United States during the end of the nineteenth century …

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  • Hood River (city)

    Situated in the Columbia River Gorge about sixty miles east of Portland, the City of Hood River occupies a transition zone between temperate, wet …

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  • Hop Industry

    Hops are perennial, cone-producing, climbing plants native to Europe, Asia, and North America. While originally cultivated for ornamental or medicinal purposes over a thousand years …

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