The Oregon Encyclopedia

Great Plank Road

Great Plank Road

The Great Plank Road, constructed in 1856, connected productive agricultural communities in the Tualatin Valley to Portland. Paved with sixteen-foot, three-inch-thick wooden planks, the road offered an improved route from agricultural communities ...

Wapato Lake National Refuge

Wapato Lake National Refuge

The Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge, approved in 2007, is a noncontiguous patchwork of Pacific Northwest rainforest near Gaston, in Washington and Yamhill Counties. The refuge, which includes Wapato Creek from the ...

George Abernethy (1807-1877)

George Abernethy (1807-1877)

George Abernethy cut a wide swath through Oregon's religious, economic, and political life from his arrival in 1840 until his death in 1877.

Born in New York City in 1807 and ...

Agriculture and Ranching

George Abernethy (1807-1877)

John Ball (1794-1884)

Peter Britt (1819-1905)

Carpenter Foundation and Alfred (1881-1974) & Helen Bundy (1886-1961) Carpenter

Jacob S. Conser (1818-1893)

John William "Pete" French (1849-1897)

Cornelius Gilliam (1798 - 1848)

Dayton Ogden Hyde (1925-)

Peter Kerr (1861-1957)

Reub Long (1898-1974)

John Minto (1822-1915)

Alice Day Pratt (1872-1963)

Clayton Sumner (C.S.) Price (1874-1950)

Alfred Qualman (1904-1993)

Jesse Settlemier (1840-1913)

Elbridge Trask (1815-1863)

Joseph Watt (1817 - 1890)

Ewing Young (c. 1796-1841)

Blueberries and Huckleberries

Chanterelle Mushrooms

Maraschino Cherries

Pears and the pear industry

Sherman Big Bluegrass

Harney County Fair, Rodeo, and Race Meet

Klamath Basin Project (1906)

National Reclamation Act (1902)

Portland Rose Festival

Senate Bill 100

Willamette River flood of 1964

Willamette River flood of 1996

Athapaskan Indians

Japanese Americans in Oregon

Latinos in Oregon

Native American Agricultural Labor

Alpenrose Dairy

Basque boardinghouses in Oregon

Bonneville Power Administration

Bracero Program

Centro Cultural de Washington County

Cranberry Industry

Crooked River Project

Crown/Centennial Mills

Farmers' markets

Flax and Linen Industry of Oregon

Grass seed industry

Harry & David/Bear Creek Orchards

Hood River Distillers

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Kettle Foods, Inc.

Land Use Planning

Oregon Producers’ Exporting and Importing Company

Oregon State Agricultural Society

Oregon State University

Tillamook Cheese

Urban Growth Boundary

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

U.S. General Land Office in Oregon, ca. 1850-1946

Valley Migrant League

Women's Land Army

Indian Use of Fire in Early Oregon

City of Antelope and Muddy Ranch

Bear Creek Valley

Big Summit Prairie

Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

Community of Dora

City of Gold Hill

Great Plank Road

Hay Creek Ranch

Hood River (city)

Illinois Valley Soil & Water Conservation District

Long Creek (town)

Lower Klamath Lake

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

City of Mt. Angel

Multnomah County Poor Farm (Edgefield)

Patrick and Jane Hughes House

Peavy Arboretum

Peter French Round Barn

Community of Roy

Thompson's Mills

Tualatin, City of

Wapato Lake National Refuge

Willamette River

Willamette Valley

Zimmerman Heritage Farm