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Vanport, Oregon Vanport, Oregon. Vanport, sometimes referred to as Vanport City or Kaiserville, was a hastily constructed city of wartime public housing located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, between the contemporary Portland city boundary and the Columbia River. It is currently the site of Delta Park and the Portland International Raceway.
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- ASTORIA, OREGON. Astoria sits on the tip of the Northwest Oregon coast at the mouth of the Columbia River. It is the oldest city west of the Rockies. John Jacob Astor’s fur traders followed Lewis & Clark there, and established the quaint maritime-based community which still exists today.
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Lewis & Clark among the Indians 7. Down the Columbia Lewis and Clark met Skilloot traders all along the river and on the return journey found a Skilloot settlement as far east as The Dalles. During the early days of November, as the explorers entered Skilloot territories—near present-day Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington —they noted an ever increasing stock of European goods.
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- Reedsport, Oregon. Reedsport is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,154.
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Port Angeles, WA â¦ where your new home awaits! Port Angeles, WA … where your new home awaits! Lying between the gleaming waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the magnificent Olympic Mountains and the Olympic National Park, the possibilities for this area seem boundless. Port Angeles is in the center of Clallam County, surrounded by the towns of Sequim, Forks and other towns in between. Port Angeles has a wonderful school system, and offers outstanding medical facilities for its residents. For those interested in outdoors, Port Angeles is the key to all that surrounds it.
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- 302 East Water Street, Plymouth, NC 27962 / (252) 793-1377. The Port o’ Plymouth Museum. Housed in a historic 1923 Atlantic Coast Line Train depot, the Port o’ Plymouth Museum is charged with the mission of preserving and celebrating the long and unique history of Washington County, North ...
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- In the late summer and fall of1939, Lange traveled to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. She produced over five hundred photographs in Oregon of the people and rural environment of the Willamette Valley, Columbia Basin, Josephine County, the Klamath Basin, and Malheur County.
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Beaverton, Oregon Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The city center is 7 miles (11 km) west of downtown Portland in the Tualatin River Valley. As of the 2010 census, the population is 89,803.
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- Stephenson County, Illinois 15 June 6, 2008. Local Disaster Historians Focus Group. One June 12, 2007, Vandewalle & Associates facilitated a meeting with County residents that were identified by. SCEM and City of Freeport staff as having unique knowledge of disaster history in the City and County.
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Newberg One of the current streets, Brutscher Street, is named after him. Newberg was the first community in Oregon to hold Quaker services. It was incorporated as a city in 1889. The city's newspaper, The Newberg Graphic, was established the same year. Pacific Academy, later renamed George Fox University, was founded by the Quakers in 1891.
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Reedsport Reedsport is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 4,378. Reedsport was established on the estuary of the Umpqua River on January 7, 1852. It was named for a local settler, Alfred W. Reed, who founded the city in 1912. The post office was established July 17, 1912.
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- Immerse yourself in the historic charm and natural beauty of Fort Worden. Located in Port Townsend, WA, on the scenic Olympic Peninsula, Fort Worden is open year-round for day use and overnight stays. Fort Worden welcomes individual travelers and groups of all sizes as a 434-acre state park with stunning views of the Salish Sea and Cascade and Olympic Mountains.
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Tri-County Chamber of Commerce : Your Gateway to Rural Oregon. Greetings from the City of Harrisburg, home of 3,000 friendly citizens! Bordered along the beautiful Willamette River, Harrisburg is the perfect compromise between rural and urban America. Located near the I-5 corridor, it is approximately 25 miles from the larger cities of Eugene, Albany and Corvallis.
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Port Ludlow :: a Master Planned Resort Community for All Ages :: Birding, Boating, Golfing, Hiking, & More Port Ludlow is located in the Puget Sound region of Washington State, next to Port Ludlow Bay on the eastern edge of the Olympic Peninsula. Seattle is about two hours away by car (see driving distances chart below). Port Ludlow is about half way between Port Townsend (on the north) & the Hood Canal Bridge (on the south). See maps below.
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Dundee, Oregon The first post office in the area was Ekins, established in 1881. Dundee is named in honor of the birthplace of William Reid, Dundee, Scotland. Reid came to Oregon in 1874 to establish the Oregonian Railway, and made several extensions to the railroad in the western Willamette Valley. The Ekins post office was closed in 1885 and a new office opened in 1887, named Dundee Junction.
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- Reedsport is located in Douglas County on the central Oregon coast at the intersection of Oregon Highway 38 and U.S. Highway 101. The City is approximately 195 miles south of Portland, 87 miles southwest of Eugene, 70 miles west of Roseburg, 25 miles north of Coos Bay, and 21 miles south of Florence.
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- Vantec World Transport (HK) Ltd. 13011-13013E, 13th Floor, ATL Logistics Centre B, Berth 3, Kwai Chung Container Terminal, NT, Hong kong (china).nit 23 & 25, 7/F Block B, Profit Industrial Building, 1-15 Kwai Fung Crescent, Kwai Chung, Hong kong (china).
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The Pacific Coast Scenic Byways A. Astoria to Cannon Beach. Your Pacific Coast Scenic Byway adventure begins in Astoria, at the northwest tip of Oregon. (Astoria can be reached from Portland via Route 30.) Astoria, named for the fur trader John Jacob Astor, was the first permanent European settlement in the Pacific Northwest, established in 1811.
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- Holmen, Village of. Report an issue with this listing. Listed on the National Register for Historic Places, the McGilvray Arch Truss Bridges are located in the Van Loon Wildlife Area. Built between 1905 and 1908, five of the seven bridges remain. Today, McGilvray Road is one of Wisconsin's most unique hiking trails.
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JAZZ AND THE CULTURAL During the later part of the 1800's many people from Eastern Europe decided to immigrate. Many of these immigrants came seeking work and most times, they moved to areas that offered unlimited employment opportunities. This was the case for the town of Bitumen, Pennsylvania.
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Oregon Oregon City, at the end of the Oregon Trail, was the Oregon Territory 's first incorporated city, and was its first capital from 1848 until 1852, when the capital was moved to Salem. Bend, near the geographic center of the state, is one of the ten fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States.
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- Completely restored 1901 Craftsman in the heart of Downtown Vanc featuring original fir floors, situated on large fenced corner lot w/ lush landscaping.Stunning kit w/ SS Appl. Exquisite Master Suite w/Spa Like Bath.3Bed + Den or 4th BD, 3 full BA.ompletely restored 1901 Craftsman in the heart of Downtown Vanc featuring original fir floors, situated on large fenced corner lot w/ lush landscaping.
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- Welcome to Stayton, Oregon! Stayton is located at the confluence of the Santiam Canyon and the Willamette Valley, 14 miles east from the state capitol in Salem along Highway 22. At this site, you'll be able to access information about city government, services, recreation and administration.
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Vanport survivors are dying. Has their history been documented well enough? In February, the Smithsonian Magazine published a long piece about the city's disappearance. The Oregon Historical Society's current exhibit features Vanport, too. But many Portlanders still don't know the history of the 1948 tragedy that wiped Oregon's second-largest city off the map. City memorials are hidden beneath moss and blackberries. The flood isn't taught in Oregon schools.
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Seaside, Oregon In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a veteran of the Franco Prussian War (1870-1871). After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria, Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a beach cottage (built in 1885). Gilbert was a real estate developer who donated land to the City of Seaside for its one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, or Prom, along the Pacific beach.
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Van Meter, Iowa Van Meter, Iowa. Van Meter is a city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States, along the Raccoon River. The population was 1,016 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2014 of 1,133. Van Meter is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.