The campaign to achieve voting rights (also called suffrage or the franchise) for Oregon women from 1870 to 1912 is part of a broad and …

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In 1942, after many men in Oregon had left the workforce to fight in World War II, thousands of women joined a different kind of …

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It is sometimes hard to believe that one month in the life of a twenty-eight-year-old Oklahoma-born folk singer could have a lasting impact on an …

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The X-Ray Cafe was a premiere hole-in-the-wall, all-ages music venue that helped shaped Portland's early 1990s music scene. Benjamin Arthur Ellis and Tres Shannon founded …

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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, built in 1871, is the only wooden lighthouse in Oregon and is believed to be the oldest structure in Newport. The lighthouse …

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The U.S. Lighthouse Board built Yaquina Head Lighthouse in 1872 on Yaquina Head, a narrow peninsula of Columbia basalt that juts nearly a mile out …

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York was William Clark's slave and an integral member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory …

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Inveterate angler Zane Grey, writer of highly popular Western fiction, first visited Oregon in 1919 to fish the waters of the Rogue River and Crater …

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Zigzag Ranger Station is the headquarters for the Zigzag District of the Mount Hood National Forest. Built mostly on the south side of Highway 26 …

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The Zimmerman Heritage Farm in Gresham consists of an 1874 farmhouse on 5.98 acres, the remnant of a large dairy farm operated by the family …

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