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Hay Creek Ranch
For over a century, Hay Creek Ranch has been one of the largest ranch holdings in Oregon and has played a prominent role in the …
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Hayden Island
Hayden Island, a 1,400-acre island nine miles north of downtown Portland, is an important regional asset both in terms of commerce and natural resources. …
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Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
Hazel Hall was recognized in the early decades of the twentieth century as a major Northwest poet, widely admired and anthologized in America and England. …
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Hazel Ying Lee (1912-1944)
Hazel Ying Lee, who was born and educated in Oregon, was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military, one of two …
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Hazelnuts
Hazelnuts, also called filberts, have provided food for Indigenous peoples in the Northern Hemisphere since the glacial age. Two varieties are important to Oregon. Corylus …
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Heceta Head Lighthouse
Heceta Head Lighthouse stands 205 feet above the Pacific Ocean on a bluff carved out of the west side of 1,000-foot-high Heceta Head, twelve miles …
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Hector Macpherson (1918-2015)
Hector Macpherson Jr. received the Distinguished Leadership Award for a Citizen Planner from the American Planning Association in 1999, the same year the association designated …
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Heinmot Tooyalakekt (Chief Joseph) (1840-1904)
Heinmot Tooyalakekt (Thunder Rising to Loftier Mountain Heights), also known as Chief Joseph, was a prominent figure among the Nimiipuu, or Nez Perce. He is …
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Helen F. Althaus (1910–2006)
A descendent of Oregon pioneers, Helen Althaus was a pioneer woman lawyer. Her legal career included public service, private practice, and work in environmental policy …
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Helen Gilkey (1886-1972)
Helen Margaret Gilkey was a nationally recognized mycologist, a talented botanical illustrator, and a watercolor artist. She was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. …
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