During the thirty-four years that Fred Stickel served as publisher of the Portland Oregonian, the largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest rose from obscurity …

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Portland architect, Frederick Manson White (1863-1952) was responsible for many distinctive commercial, religious, and educational buildings in Oregon that are still in use today. White …

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Although by training a forester, Frederick William Cleator served as one of the first recreational planners in the U.S. Forest Service and, for much of …

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Fredrik Wilhelm Lönegren moved to Portland on October 3, 1908, to start a Swedish newspaper, which he successfully did. Through Oregon Posten, he had …

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Located in Oregon's mid-Willamette Valley, French Prairie was resettled by French-Indian families from the 1820s through the 1840s. In the early 1850s, Pierre …

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Frenchglen is a small desert community sixty miles south of Burns whose population varies from twelve to fifteen permanent residents. In this small town on …

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The Marshall Street Community Center, founded by the socially minded First Presbyterian Church of Portland, opened in 1926. For more than eighty years, it …

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Friends of Chamber Music is the oldest continuously operating chamber music series in Oregon and the sixth-longest-running chamber music organization in the United States. Plans …

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Founded in 1987 in Hood River, the Full Sail Brewing Company is one of the earliest craft breweries in Oregon. Originally called the Hood …

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The fur trade was the earliest and longest-enduring economic enterprise that colonizers, imperialists, and nationalists pursued in North America. It significantly shaped North American history, …

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