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Lithia Park
Lithia Park in Ashland is a good example of what Fredrick Law Olmsted called "the genius of place." The park rambles from the edge of the …
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Lizzie Weeks (1879-1976)
Lizzie Koontz Weeks was an African American activist in Portland in the years after women in Oregon had achieved the right to vote in 1912. …
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Lloyd Doss (1920-2011)
Lloyd Thomas Doss gained fame playing with some of the best Western music bands of the 1940s and 50s. He was born in Weiser, Idaho, …
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Lloyd Reynolds (1902–1978)
Lloyd Reynolds is an iconic figure in Pacific Northwest calligraphy. He not only inspired generations of students, but he also strongly influenced the aesthetics of …
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Loaves and Fishes
Loaves and Fishes Centers was established in Portland by a group of people who organized in 1969 to find ways to meet the nutritional and …
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Lodgepole pine
Oregon's only native two-needle pine, Pinus contorta, commonly called lodgepole pine, is widely distributed across the state in a variety of diverse ecological habitats, …
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Lola Greene Baldwin (1860-1957)
On April 1, 1908, Portland Mayor Harry Lane administered the police oath to forty-eighty-year-old Lola Greene Baldwin, the first woman hired under civil service rules …
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Long Creek (town)
The eastern Oregon town of Long Creek, in Grant County, is located in a valley and near a stream of the same name. In the early …
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Lorane (town)
Lorane is a small, rural community in Lane County a few miles from the headwaters of the Siuslaw River, approximately 22 miles southwest of Eugene …
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Lord's Acre Sale
The annual Lord's Acre Sale is an event that began in 1946 as a means to fund construction of the Powell Butte Community Church's first …
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