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Roscoe De Leur Hemenway (1899-1959)
Architect Roscoe De Leur Hemenway designed an estimated three hundred buildings. During his lifetime, he became one of the best-known residential architects in Portland. …
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Rose Garbow Naftalin (1898–1998)
Rose Naftalin was a restauranteur and cookbook author in Portland and the founder of Rose’s, a Kosher-style delicatessen that was legendary for its impressive desserts …
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Roseburg
Roseburg, the county seat of Douglas County, is located in the Hundred Valleys of the Umpqua, a region that enjoys a Mediterranean climate with rare …
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Roseburg Blast
In the early morning hours of August 7, 1959, a parked truck—loaded with two tons of dynamite and over four tons of ammonium nitrate—caught fire …
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Roseburg Forest Products
Founded by Kenneth Ford in 1936, Roseburg Lumber Company began as a sawmill with salvaged equipment and twenty-five employees. Today, Roseburg Forest Products Company is …
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Roswell Hawks Lamson (1838–1903)
Roswell Hawks Lamson came of age during a transformative period in the mid-nineteenth century. An emigrant on the Oregon Trail when he was a boy, …
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Rough-skinned newt
Rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa Skilton) are large, conspicuous salamanders that can reach lengths of 22 centimeters (8 inches). Newts are distributed along the Pacific …
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Royal Rosarians
In 1911, a delegation of ten businessmen represented Portland at Seattle's Golden Potlatch Festival. On the train ride home, the men agreed that Portland needed …
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Rudy Chapa (1957-)
“Rudy, Rudy,” chanted the fans attending the June 1978 NCAA Track and Field Championships at the University of Oregon’s historic Hayward Field, as Oregon sophomore …
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Rudyard Kipling's Visit to Oregon, 1889
The English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) spent five days in Oregon in June 1889. He wrote about his adventures in Portland, traveling by train …
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