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                        Waldo House
                    
                    The Daniel and Melinda Waldo House, constructed in 1854 in the Waldo Hills, east of Salem near present-day Macleay, was the home of the …
                    
                    
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                        Waldo Lake
                    
                    Located astride the backbone of the Cascade Mountains in the Willamette National Forest, Waldo Lake is a child of the sky, nourished wholly by …
                    
                    
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                        Wallace House (trading post)
                    
                    Wallace House, built in 1812 north of the Kalapuya village of Chemeketa, was the first known building of European-American design in the Willamette Valley. …
                    
                    
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                        Walla Walla Basin
                    
                    Long before the wheat and cattle ranches, the orchards and onion farms, before the vineyards and restaurants and shopping malls, when this place was occupied …
                    
                    
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                        Walla Walla Treaty Council 1855
                    
                    The treaty council held at Waiilatpu (Place of the Rye Grass) in the Walla Walla Valley in May and June of 1855 forever changed the …
                    
                    
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                        Walla Walla Valley Railway
                    
                    In 1907, the Walla Walla Valley Railway built a fourteen-mile electric railway from its terminal on 6th Street in downtown Walla Walla, Washington, to Milton-Freewater …
                    
                    
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                        Walter Alan Curtis (1941–2023)
                    
                    Walt Curtis was an Oregon writer, painter, and literary activist and—in the mold of his idol Walt Whitman—a poet unfettered by convention. As an independent …
                    
                    
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                        Walter Cole (Darcelle) (1930-2023)
                    
                    When Walter Cole was discharged from the military in the late 1950s, he had little idea that his alter ego, the female impersonator Darcelle, would …
                    
                    
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                        Walter C. Reynolds (1920–2020)
                    
                    Walter Cornelius Reynolds was the first African American graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University) and one of …
                    
                    
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                        Walter Lobitz, Jr. (1911-2006)
                    
                    Walter Lobitz Jr. was one of the most influential dermatologists in Oregon during the twentieth century. He was named head of the Department of Dermatology …
                    
                    
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