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Lakeview
The City of Lakeview, in northern Goose Lake Valley at an elevation of 4,804 feet, calls itself Oregon’s Tallest Town. By far the largest community …
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Lan Su Chinese Garden
Poetically named Garden of Awakening Orchids, Lan Su Yuan, the Portland Lan Su Chinese Garden is a product of a sister city association between Portland …
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Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC)
In 1973, Oregon Senate Bill 100 established the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), with policy and administrative oversight of the state-mandated land-use planning …
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Land Use Planning
In 1973, Oregon took a pioneering step in land use planning. Signed into law on May 29, 1973, Oregon Senate Bill 100 created an institutional …
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Lane Community College
Lane Community College (LCC) in Eugene opened its doors in 1965, but the roots of the school reach back to the 1930s and the Eugene …
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Larry Jansen (1920-2009)
Larry Jansen was a two-time All Star and one of the top pitchers in Major League Baseball during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Born …
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Last Blockbuster Video Store in the U.S.
At its height in 2004, the video rental store chain Blockbuster had over nine thousand locations in the United States. By summer 2018, that number …
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Latinos in Oregon
The arrival of Latinos in Oregon began with Spanish explorations in the sixteenth century. In 1542-1543, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, sailing from the port of Navidad …
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Laurelhurst
The Laurelhurst neighborhood in Portland is an historic twentieth-century neighborhood of residences and parkland, with origins in the nineteenth century. It was developed along streetcar …
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Lauren B. Sykes (1905-1980)
"Lauren B. Sykes has done as much or more for music in Portland than any individual in the history of this city," wrote Oregon Journal …
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