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Seneca
Seneca is a small town in Bear Valley near the Blue Mountains and the Malheur National Forest in Grant County. Located on Highway 395 between …
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Arlington
Arlington, about fifty miles east of The Dalles, is on the Columbia River at the mouth of Alkali Canyon. In the early 1870s, settlers …
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Aurora
One of the more successful American utopian communal societies in the nineteenth century was founded on the Pudding River in Marion County in 1856. Named …
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George Chamberlain (1854-1928)
Largely because of his reputation as a scrupulously honest attorney general, Democrat George Earle Chamberlain was elected Oregon governor in 1902 with a slim majority …
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Wasco
Wheat farming, ranching, and wind turbines drive the economy of the small town of Wasco, in Sherman County, about nine miles south of the Columbia …
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