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... that the world's northernmost grove of
Redwood trees is located in the Chetco River watershed and includes specimens reaching over 300 feet (91 m) tall?
...that the oldest state government building in the US state of
Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building (pictured) in
Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal? June 24, 2007
...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (pictured) in
Salem is the third-largest museum in the state - and
Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
...that Gatke Hall (pictured), a former
post office, was moved completely intact on rollers down a city street over a six month period in 1938 to its new home at
Willamette University?
...that in 1851, Hugh O'Bryant was elected the first mayor of
Portland by a mere four votes?
...that Pokey Allen, former head coach of the
Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself
shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
...that Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety
ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in the hospital?
... that after retiring from politics, Oregon
U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized
bicycle tours, including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of
Vietnam?
... that in 1854, Charles S. Drew(pictured) was appointed quartermaster general of the Oregon territorial militia by
Democratic governor
John W. Davis, but was removed from office when he joined the
Know-Nothing Party?
... that Eliza Barchus(pictured), who was widely recognized for her paintings of the
Cascade Range volcanoes, sold many
postcards of her work to augment her income?
...that a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park (pictured) in
Hillsboro,
Oregon, came from private pledges?
... that the historic P Ranch in
Oregon, owned by cattle baron
Peter French, covered 140,000 acres (570 km2) and required 500 miles of
barbed wire fence for protection?
...that George K. Gay's house was the first brick house in
Oregon and served as the boundary marker between
Yamhill and
Polk counties?
...that Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of
Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in
Oregon in 2007?
...that Oregon judge William G. East ordered
Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay a private attorney his fees who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
... that Silver Creek flows through a canyon near
Riley, Oregon, with over 200-foot (60 m) tall walls?
... that one-third of the structures in
Heppner were swept away by Willow Creek in a
flash flood on June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
...that Luis Palau, an evangelical minister based in
Portland,
Oregon, collaborated with government leaders in Portland and neighboring cities, and 500
Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address
homelessness?
... that an irrigation dam
failed on Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of
Vale, Oregon, with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing
US$500,000 in damage?
... that former
Oregon Duck and
Detroit LionGeorge Christensen co-founded a multinational manufacturing company with factories in France, Japan, Canada and the United States?
... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the
University of Oregon's
baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
... that although
Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long
greenway system, the 40-Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
... that David Shirk, owner of the historic David L. Shirk Ranch in southeastern Oregon, killed an employee of cattle baron
Peter French over a land claim?
... that West Shore, a magazine published from 1875 to 1891 in
Portland,
Oregon, was well known for its illustrations of scenery, architecture, and commerce of the
Pacific Northwest?
... that the Laurel Valley Store in Laurel, Oregon, opened in 1893 and is still in use?
... that an aborted family
picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in
Oregon instead of
California?
... that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire
Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
... that after filing to run for a seat on the
Oregon Supreme Court, judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
... that the citizens of Verboort, Oregon, produce 15 tons of
sausage and 2,000 pounds of
sauerkraut for the community's annual sausage and sauerkraut festival?
... that while building a wagon road along Union Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered
Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the
United States and one of the clearest in the world?
... that the Oregon State Bar was the first
bar association in the U.S. to provide complete access to all attorney records it keeps, but only after a lawsuit?
... that John Trudeau established the
Britt Festival in
Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the
Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?
... that after a plane crash killed the
Governor of Oregon and the next two people in line for that office, the new governor's first act was to appoint Earl T. Newbry as Secretary of State?
... that the "Old Perpetual" geyser (pictured) at Hunter's Hot Springs in
Lake County,
Oregon, releases a plume of near-boiling water 50 to 60 feet (15–18 m) into the air every 90 seconds?
... that during construction of the church that now houses the Walters Cultural Arts Center(pictured) in
Hillsboro, Oregon, the church was given all the rock they needed for US$1,000 as long as they hauled it away?
... that Oregon banned alcohol twice(logo of trade group pictured) before the rest of America: once prior to statehood, from 1844 to 1845, and then again in 1915, four years before passage of the
18th Amendment?
... that the Heryford Brothers Building in
Lakeview, Oregon, cost $100,000 to construct in 1913, and is still one of the most important commercial buildings in the city?
... that J. K. Gill(pictured) started a bookstore in
Portland, Oregon, in 1870 that grew to a chain of almost 40 stores before the company folded in 1999?
... that American
wine writer Matt Kramer coined the definition of terroir as a wine's "somewhereness"?
... that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in
Hillsboro, Oregon, has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
... that newspaper editor Col. William Thompson won his 1871 shootout with a rival newspaper editor despite sustaining severe gunshot wounds, including a bullet lodged behind his eye, and a beating from a cane?
... that
Native American activist Robert Robideau was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two
FBI agents, for which his cousin
Leonard Peltier was later convicted and is serving two life sentences?
... that the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel(pictured) in
Dufur,
Oregon, are 18 inches (460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer months?
... that when children's book illustrator Clare Turlay Newberry purchased a $500
ocelot for a live drawing model, The New York Times headline read "Still A Lot For Ocelot"?
... that Portland Fire Station No. 7, built in Portland, Oregon in 1927, was the last of many firehouses designed by Lee Gray Holden, who died of a stroke while visiting it?
... that Ezra Meeker(pictured) traveled the
Oregon Trail by
ox cart in 1852, and crossed the United States by airplane in 1924 at age 93?
... that in 1987 the Elk Creek Dam's construction on Elk Creek was halted due to a
court injunction issued over a lawsuit designed to protect
salmon and other
migratory fish from the effects of the
dam on the river?
... that Frances Fuller Victor(pictured), an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian
Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West?
... that in 1971, Governor
Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit
Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?
... that the Astoria Riverfront Trolley(pictured), which runs along the Columbia River in
Astoria, Oregon, uses a 1913 trolley car acquired from an art museum in Texas?
... that, in 2010, the Oregon Bach Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary under the direction of its founder, German conductor
Helmuth Rilling?
... that the
United States Army's Camp Warner in south central
Oregon was so cold that on several occasions the camp's entire detachment of
soldiers had to walk in circles all night to keep from freezing?
... that as of 2009, Liz Shuler(pictured) is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of
AFL–CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the
labor federation's history?
... that the Chetco(pictured) were once one of the largest
Native American tribes on the southern coast of
Oregon, but now only about 40 of their descendants remain?
... that by the time their lands were ceded to the
United States in the Kalapuya Treaty of 1855, only 400
Kalapuya Native Americans remained, the rest having died of disease or armed conflict?
... that Fort Harney, a
United States Army outpost in eastern
Oregon, was officially designated as a fort in April 1879 and then abandoned in June 1880?
... that
Lake County,
Oregon's Warner Lakes and their associated wetlands (pictured) offer numerous recreational opportunities but have relatively few visitors because of their remote location?
... that the Eugene Saturday Market in
Eugene, Oregon, is the oldest weekly open-air crafts market in the United States and is attended by 3,000 and 5,000 people every week?
... that the tragic death of Bonnie McCarroll at the 1929
Pendleton Round-Up led to the cancellation of women's
bronc riding from
rodeo competition?
... that shortly before its construction began, in 2009, the planned Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in
Oregon was expected to be the world's biggest
wind farm on land when completed?
... that after removal of a dam that blocked their migration for nearly a century,
salmon and
steelhead returned in 2009 to the Little Sandy River in
Oregon?
... that the Oriental Theatre's chandelier (ceiling pictured) in
Portland, Oregon, United States, contained 3,000 light bulbs and weighed 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
... that Amanda Marshall was nominated in November 2010 to become the
United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, but did not take the position until October 2011?
...that the "noble polypore" (mushroom species Bridgeoporus nobilissimus) was the first fungus to be listed as
endangered by any private or public agency in the United States?
... that Carol Lee Flinders, coauthor of the "renowned countercultural cookbook" Laurel's Kitchen, has also written books on spirituality, mysticism, and feminism?
... that the historic Unity Ranger Station in northeastern
Oregon has had a 60 foot high
fire lookout tower (pictured) with a built in water tank located on the compound since 1938?
... that the Arlington Club(pictured), a private club organized by business and banking leaders in
Portland, Oregon, excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
... that
Portland, Oregon's Tanner Springs Park was described as "a sort of cross between an Italian piazza and a weedy urban wetland with lots of benches"?
... that in 1881, George Washington Weidler(pictured), owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in
Portland, Oregon?
... that the Whitehorse Ranch in southeast
Oregon voluntarily removed its
cattle from 50,000 acres (200 km2) of its
BLM grazing allotment for three years to allow
watershed and
riparian areas to recover?
... that Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for
Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
... that the Pistol River received its name after James Mace lost his
pistol in it in 1853?
... that the Terwilliger curves, a six-lane section of
Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, had an average of 100 car accidents per year between 1995 and 2005?
... that, 66 years after it opened as a department store, the 1910 Olds, Wortman & King building (pictured) became the first indoor shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon?
... that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School, a public school that was rated as below average by the state of
Oregon?
... that Washington County Fire District 2 in
Oregon began as the Hillsboro Rural Fire Protection District and is now headed by the Hillsboro Fire Department's chief?
... that Dick Magruder was elected to the
Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 23 and came within one vote of being elected speaker before he was killed in a farm accident at the age of 31?
... that
Oregon governor
Ted Kulongoski demanded that George H. Taylor, head of the Oregon Climate Service, stop representing himself as the "Oregon State Climatologist"?
... that salmon canning magnate Frank M. Warren(pictured), the only first-class passenger from Oregon to perish in the sinking of the Titanic, played for one of the first baseball teams in Portland?
... that the "Sol" in Sol Republic is an acronym for "soundtrack of life"?
... that the seemingly unremarkable Catt family – father Ronald "Scott" Catt and his children, Hayden and Abigail – pulled off several bank robberies in
Oregon and
Texas?
... that when the town of
Lakeview, Oregon, was destroyed by fire in 1900, staff of the Lake County Examiner saved enough equipment and material to publish a special edition the next day?
... that after the ship Favorite was sunk at its moorings in
Oregon, it was refloated within days?
... that a piece of carpet installed at 400 SW Sixth Avenue(pictured) in
Portland, Oregon, in 1959 was said at that time to be the largest that had ever been laid in the Pacific Northwest?
... that in 1909 the owner of the Wolverine claimed the Coquille intentionally rammed his boat, but the
Steamboat Inspection Service subsequently suspended the captains of both vessels?
... that in the event of a severe flood, the gray-tailed vole will abandon its complex network of tunnels and head for high ground?
... that the Dispatch sternwheeler carried as many as 400 passengers over two hours downriver from
Coquille to
Bandon, Oregon, to attend baseball games there?
... that Rogue Ales' Beard Beer was reported to be a hoax when it was introduced on
April Fools' Day in 2013?
... that in 1943 several airplanes landed on the highway near C. W. E. Jennings' store in
Valley Falls, Oregon, and taxied up to the store's gas pump to refuel?
... that at one time the James Beard Public Market was to be located near the former site of the
Portland Public Market, which was the largest supermarket in the United States when it was built in 1933?
... that the
proposed sculptureRebirth, projected as a deer with a human child's face, was meant to represent "the interaction between the nearby
riparian forest and the people living in
Oak Grove"?
... that in December 1869 an employee of the Alert committed suicide by jumping overboard into the
Willamette River after being released from an
insane asylum?
... that while living in England, American artist Robert Hess learned to paint in the style of
John Constable and was influenced by the sculptures of
Henry Moore?
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... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to
siphon votes from the Democratic candidate?
... that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager
concentration camp, saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
... that the McLoughlin Promenade(pictured) sits on a bluff in
Oregon that was occupied by the
Molala people thousands of years before the arrival of settlers of European ancestry?
... that Henry Semon lost his seat in the
Oregon legislature when he accepted a position on the state's agriculture board, but was reappointed to the legislature after resigning from the board?
... that an 1844 Oregon law required all slaves to be freed—and all freed slaves to leave Oregon?
... that before becoming a state representative and state senator, George Merryman served as a ship's doctor on a commercial steamship traveling between
Portland, Oregon and the
Far East?
... that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km2) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the
Three Sisters Wilderness area?
... that on the day Horace P. Belknap was interred in 1936,
National Guard inductions were suspended in
Central Oregon because all the local medical examiners were attending his funeral?
... that former
Oregon state legislator Hazen A. Brattain died a month after completing a seven-month world tour?
... that gold was discovered on Cline Buttes in central
Oregon in 1904, but proved uneconomic to mine?
... that the Summer Lake Hot Springs bathhouse (pictured), built in 1928, is a timber and tin structure with a 15-by-30-foot (4.6 m × 9.1 m) bathing pool inside?
... that the Organ Grinder Restaurant's Wurlitzer pipe organ included such effects as a submarine dive alarm?
... that
Oregon rancher Bill Brown, known as the "Horse King of the West", often wrote checks on newspaper margins and soup can labels—which bankers would cash without question?
... that Interstate 84 is the longest freeway in
Oregon and the only one to traverse the state from west to east?
... that during the Petticoat Revolution, Laura Starcher became mayor of
Umatilla, Oregon, while keeping her candidacy a secret from her husband—the current mayor—until the afternoon of election day?
... that even though the Baker Hotel(pictured) was nearly fully booked during the filming of the 1969 musical film Paint Your Wagon, it closed shortly thereafter?
... that
Portland'sMAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by
Bechtel?
... that Kessler R. Cannon, who later became an
Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on
KBND in the 1950s?
... that a "self-proclaimed public avenger" cut down the tower of Oregon television station KVDO-TV in 1976 to protest its sale to the state government?
... that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central
Oregon?
... that Obed Dickinson, an abolitionist pastor in Oregon in the mid-1800s, was pressured into resigning for advocating for racial equality?
... that Hayden Bridge is the oldest intact bridge in the US state of Oregon?
... that Robert McLean served as a
missionary in Chile for six years before moving to
Oregon, where he founded two churches and was elected to the state legislature?
... that David Kennedy, co-founder of the agency that came up with
Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of
Levi's denims by his employees?
... that when Oregon journalist Larry Smyth was asked who he thought would win presidential elections, he invariably replied "the man who gets the most votes"?
... that the only remaining artifact in the
ghost town of Fremont, Oregon, is a
juniper stump notched with steps that women travelers used to mount horses in a modest fashion?
... that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?
... that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the
Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
... that Gus C. Moser served five 4-year terms in the
Oregon State Senate, including two non-consecutive 2-year periods as senate president, to which post he was elected unanimously in 1917?
... that future state senator William T. Vinton was sent to jail for contempt of court when he refused to sign a city paving contract, but was later vindicated by an
Oregon Supreme Court decision?
... that the founding manager of an Oregon radio station named it after his wife's former name?