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Buncom
Buncom (also Bunkum, Buncombe or Buncomville) is situated at the conflu…
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Bundy's Baths and Windemuth Portland Swimming Holes
From 1898 to 1924, the Willamette River near Ross Island, south of down…
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Butteville
In its heyday, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the to…
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Butteville Store
The Butteville Store was not the first trading post or mercantile in th…
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LaFayette Grover (1823-1911)
LaFayette Grover was politically one of the most successful Democrats i…
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Meier & Frank Co.
Meier & Frank, which advertised itself as “One of America’s Great Store…
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Oregon State Fair
The call for an Oregon State Fair intensified in 1859 after California …
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Richard C. Thompson (1945-2021)
Richard Thompson was an artist and teacher (and amateur fisherman) who …
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Tejanos in Oregon
Tejanos (Tay-HAH-nohs)—Mexican Americans from south Texas—began moving …