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University of Portland
"Founded on a bluff and run on that principle," as historian Jim Covert writes, the University of Portland was born on the morning of September …
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University of Portland Pilots women's soccer
The women’s soccer team is the most successful athletic club at the University of Portland (UP), with multiple national championships and other awards. The team …
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University of Western States
The University of Western States has been a fixture of the Oregon healthcare community since 1904. The college began at the turn of the twentieth …
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Untide Press
The Untide Press (1943-1951) was a small poetry press founded at Camp Angel, a Civilian Public Service (CPS) site near Waldport. It was one of …
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Urban Growth Boundary
Each urban area in Oregon is required to define an Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). Housing tracts, shopping malls, and other kinds of urban development are …
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Urban Indians in Oregon
The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of Native peoples. These include those of Chinookan-speaking (or Kiksht-speaking) peoples, such as the Multnomah, Cascade, …
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin, one of Oregon’s preeminent writers, was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California, the youngest and only girl in a …
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US 101 (Oregon Coast Highway)
Many places on the Oregon coast were virtually inaccessible in the early twentieth century. Small fishing villages existed as remote outposts, separated by rocky headlands …
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Valley Migrant League
From 1965 until 1974, the Valley Migrant League (VML) helped Oregon migrant farm workers and former farm workers attain a better life through education and …
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Van Evera Bailey (1903-1980)
Counted among the architects who developed the Northwest Regional Style, Van Evera Bailey designed houses that were noted for their regional sensibility, their livability, and …
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