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Dorothy McCullough Lee (1902-1981)
In 1947, the city of Portland crawled with gambling halls, strip joints, bars, and brothels. Violence and venereal disease rates were so high that sea …
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Dorothy Olga Johansen (1904-1999)
Dorothy Olga Johansen was a prominent Pacific Northwest historian and educator who taught at Reed College in Portland. She was born in Seaside on …
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Douglas-fir
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), perhaps the most common tree in Oregon, is the most important conifer in the state because of its ecological and …
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Douglas Campbell Strain (1919–2008)
Doug Strain was president and CEO of Electro Scientific Industries (ESI), one of the first two companies in the Silicon Forest, west of Portland …
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Droughts in Oregon
A standard dictionary definition for drought is “a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.” From a societal perspective, however, …
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Dufur
Dufur, located thirteen miles south of The Dalles on U.S. 197, is a farming community of about 600 people. The name was originally Fifteenmile Crossing, …
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Dutch Bros. Coffee Company
In 1992, thirty-eight-year-old Dane Boersma and his twenty-one-year-old brother Travis Boersma, third-generation dairy farmers in Grants Pass, decided to buy a double-head espresso machine …
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E. Henry Wemme (1861-1914)
Ernest Henry Wemme is best known in Oregon history for being a successful businessman and philanthropist. He purchased the Barlow Road in 1912 and established …
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Earl S. Pomeroy (1915–2005)
Western historian Earl Pomeroy was a longtime professor at the University of Oregon and a major figure in historical writing. In the mid-1950s, he advanced …
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Earl Wilcox Snell (1895–1947)
Earl Snell was a Republican governor of Oregon who served during World War II and into the early postwar years. During his tenure, the state …
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