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  • Robert Straub (1920-2002)

    Robert W. Straub, Oregon’s thirty-first governor, was a plainspoken politician, environmental leader, successful businessman, and innovative state treasurer. As a candidate for governor, he used …

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  • Sebastian C. Adams (1825-1898)

    Sebastian C. Adams provides an example of how the Christian missionary zeal of many early Oregon settlers was accompanied by exceptional entreprenurial talents. Adams was …

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  • Wallace House (trading post)

    Wallace House, built in 1812 north of the Kalapuya village of Chemeketa, was the first known building of European-American design in the Willamette Valley. …

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  • Willamette Mission

    Willamette Mission was the first noncommercial agricultural community established in the Willamette Valley by American resettlers, in 1834. The mission became a beachhead …

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  • Willamette Valley

    The Willamette Valley, bounded on the west by the Coast Range and on the east by the Cascades, is the largest river valley in …

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  • Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860-1950)

    Alexander Phimister Proctor, an American sculptor known for monumental bronzes of animals and human figures, placed six major works in Oregon private collections and public …

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  • Arlene Schnitzer (1929–2020)

    Arlene Schnitzer was a patron of artists, a philanthropist, and the namesake of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Her financial support and …

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  • Brooten Kelp Ore

    From 1905 until the late 1940s, Brooten Baths was a major economic enterprise in an otherwise sparsely settled region of Tillamook County, drawing patients from …

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  • Carl Hall (1921-1996)

    Carl Hall was a Salem artist known for his paintings of the Willamette Valley, the Oregon coast, the female nude, and imagery inspired by …

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  • Carol Hewitt (1945–1993)

    Carol Hewitt was one of a small number of women who transformed the Oregon legal community during the 1970s and 1980s. Beginning her career as …

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