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Herbert Milton Schwab (1915–2005)
Herb Schwab was the first chief judge of the Oregon Court of Appeals, a court that he was instrumental in establishing in 1969. He also …
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Heritage Trees of Portland
The Heritage Tree program in Portland celebrates and protects trees that are considered significant to the city for their “age, size, type, historical association, or …
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Herman Brookman (1891-1973)
With a career that spanned more than fifty years, architect Herman Brookman designed several landmark buildings in the Portland area from the 1920s to the …
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Hermiston
At the turn of the twentieth century, the area that would become Hermiston was a hilly, sagebrush-covered desert, but boosters in Pendleton, about thirty …
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High Desert
Oregon’s High Desert is a place apart, an inescapable reality of physical geography. The region forms an extensive area that is substantially different in climate, …
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High Desert Museum
The High Desert Museum was an outgrowth of the Western Natural History Institute, established by Donald M. Kerr in 1974. A native of Portland, …
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Hilda Morris (1911-1991)
Hilda Grossman Deutsch Morris was an influential modernist sculptor associated with the Northwest School, a movement of artists that began in the Seattle area in …
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Hill Military Academy
Hill Military Academy was a prominent military school in Portland, Oregon, during the first half of the twentieth century. The school’s founder, Joseph Wood …
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Hillcrest Orchard
Hillcrest Orchard has been the name of a farm on the slopes of Roxy Ann Peak in the Rogue River Valley since 1903. It was …
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Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility
The Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem was a prison for Oregon youth for over a hundred years. The publicly owned institution opened as the …
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