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  • Portland

    Portland, with a 2020 population of 652,503 within its city limits and 2,226,009 in the seven-county metropolitan area, was platted on the west bank of …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Southeastern Oregon Bibliography

    Aikens, C. Melvin. Archaeology of Oregon. Portland: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 1986. Allen, Barbara. Homesteading the High Desert. Salt Lake City: University of Utah …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Coastal Landscape

    The Oregon Coast is a sliver of land between the mountains and the sea, almost three hundred miles long and an average of about fifty …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Dalles

    The Dalles is one of the oldest permanently occupied places in Oregon, significant to Native people for over ten millennia and to Euro-American settlers since …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Portland Domination

    The population of Oregon swelled from 90,923 in 1870 to 413,536 in 1900. By 1900, two dozen communities had a population of 1,000 or more, …

    Oregon History Project