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Cockstock Incident
The Cockstock Incident in 1844, also known as the Cockstock Affair, was the most significant occurrence of violence between white immigrants and the Oregon Country’s …
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Dorothea Marie Lensch (1907–2000)
In 1937, Dorothea Marie Lensch was named the first Director of Recreation within Portland’s Bureau of Parks and Public Recreation. She revitalized the department, …
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Draft of Oregon State Constitution
This document is a draft version of the Oregon State Constitution’s preamble and bill of rights. It was written in 1857.
After defeating motions to …
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From J.T. Dizney to Eva Emery Dye
This letter was written in 1903 by John T. Dizney, an employee of the Warm Springs Indian agency, to Eva Emery Dye, an Oregon City-based …
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Gladys McCoy (1928–1993)
Gladys Sims McCoy was one of the first person of color elected to public office in Oregon. She once described public service as the “highest …
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Henry Hamilton Hicklin (1825–1873)
White supremacy dominated opposition to slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Oregon and shaped the conservatism of its Civil War-era Republican Party. But when the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act …
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John McLoughlin to Hudson's Bay Co., 1828
John McLoughlin, chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department, wrote this letter to his superiors on August 10, 1828—two days after Arthur Black, one …
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Margaret Louise Carter (1935–)
Margaret Carter was the first Black woman to be elected to the Oregon State Legislature, in 1984. She served as the chair of the Democratic …
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Ron Herndon
(1946-)
Ron Herndon is a long-time activist for minority rights and educational opportunities in Portland. Born in Kansas, Herndon arrived in Portland in 1968 to …
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South Fork John Day River
From its headwaters in the fir and ponderosa pine forests of Grant and Harney Counties, the South Fork John Day River flows northward for about …
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