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Community of Dora
Dora is an unincorporated community on the East Fork of the Coquille River in east Coos County. The community was built along the historic Coos …
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Community of Eola (Cincinnati)
Eola is three miles west of Salem, where the Willamette River bends to the east along Highway 22. A.C.R. Shaw founded the area in 1844 …
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Community of McKenzie Bridge
The unincorporated community of McKenzie Bridge is located along the McKenzie Highway (Route 126) at milepost 50. The location, according to Oregon Geographic Names, …
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Community of Roy
Roy is a small, rural community in Washington County, about three miles southeast of Banks. The community is named after the Roy family, early …
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Community of Verboort
Verboort is a small, unincorporated community about three miles northeast of Forest Grove. In 1846, famine and poverty in the southern Netherlands propelled a …
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Community of Vida
The unincorporated community of Vida is located along the McKenzie Highway (Route 126), just east of Goodpasture Covered Bridge. The community development at Vida is …
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Community of Zigzag
On October 11, 1845, Joel Palmer wrote about a ravine on Mount Hood: “The manner of descending is to turn directly to the right, …
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Company Towns
While there have been scores of industrial settlements and communities in Oregon, there have been few planned company towns. By conventional definition, company towns are …
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Concomly (1765?-1830?)
Of the several Chinook men called Concomly at one time or another, the most famous was the headman located on Baker's Bay, on the north …
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Concordia University
In the summer of 1903, Dr. Francis Pieper, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, gave this directive to the Northwest convention of parishes: “You must …
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