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Eugene streetcar system
The first street railway in Eugene was a mule-powered system that began operating between the train depot and the University of Oregon on June 26, …
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Carleton Emmons Watkins (1829-1916)
Carleton Emmons Watkins was a prominent San Francisco-based photographer who first visited and photographed Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge in 1867. From July through …
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Ladd's Addition
Ladd's Addition is a streetcar-era neighborhood in southeast Portland with a street and park plan that is unique among neighborhoods of comparable age in the …
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Sherwood
Sherwood is located on the traces of the Oregon City–Lafayette Wagon Trail, which cut through the A.Z. Hall Donation Land Claim of the late …
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Orenco
The City of Orenco, known as the Garden Spot of the Willamette Valley, is located in the Tualatin Basin, west of Portland. Canadian …
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Milwaukie
Located at the northern edge of Clackamas County and on the east bank of the Willamette River, Milwaukie is at the confluence of Kellogg …
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Tillamook
Tillamook, the county seat of Tillamook County and its largest city, is located near the southeast end of Tillamook Bay, seventy-three miles west of …
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Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)
Before he gained fame as commander of the cavalry forces of the Army of the Potomac during Gen. U.S. Grant's overland campaign during the Civil …
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Tigard
Tigard (pronounced TY-gerd) is located in Washington County’s Tualatin Valley, a region that for thousands of years was the territory of the Atfalati, a …
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Community of Airlie
The unincorporated Polk County community of Airlie began as the terminus of a railroad that planned to connect the rich farms of the southern Willamette …
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