Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve as a judge of the Lane County Circuit Court and the first woman appointed to the …

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As the country’s deepest canyon, at 7,993 feet, Hells Canyon is a place of superlatives rooted in its remoteness. It is a place where people …

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In 1970, Helmuth Rilling was one of the founders of the Oregon Bach Festival. His tenure as artistic director, conductor, and teacher at the …

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The Dutch artist Henk Pander arrived in Portland in 1965 and, except for brief periods, lived there for the rest of his life, creating works …

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Henrietta Henderson Failing (1868-1953) was a pioneering leader of the Portland Art Association, the parent organization of the Portland Art Museum and the Museum …

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Henry Davidson Sheldon, professor of education and history and dean of the School of Education at the University of Oregon, was a leader in the …

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Prominent early Portland businessman and politician Henry Failing was born in New York City on January 17, 1834, to parents Josiah and Henrietta Failing. Attending …

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Henry Haefner was an early forester and oral historian in the Siskiyou National Forest. A 1908 graduate of Iowa State University, he began work …

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Henry Hagg Lake is a manmade reservoir located in Scoggins Valley, just a few miles southwest of the City of Forest Grove. Owned by …

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White supremacy dominated opposition to slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Oregon and shaped the conservatism of its Civil War-era Republican Party. But when the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act …

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