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Currently, Apiary Road is a popular freight route for forest products moving from the Northern Oregon Coast Range to markets in Longview, Washington. [17] Ashwood: 1870 (c.) Jefferson: C [18] [19] Auburn: 1861 1903 Baker: A Site of first gold rush in eastern Oregon. [20] Austin: 1888 1950 Grant: C [21] Bacona: 1897 Washington: A
The revival of a ghost town has unearthed the history of Black loggers who worked in Oregon when it was illegal for them to even live in the state. 100 years later, revival of ghost town tells ...
McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range. The city is named after McMinnville, Tennessee . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 34,319.
Crew of gyppo logging outfit, Tillamook County, Oregon, October 1941. The term "gyppo" is specific to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. [1] The word was introduced by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to disparage [2] strikebreakers and other loggers who thwarted their organizing efforts. [1]
The Tillamook burn photographed in 1941. The first fire started in a ravine at the headwaters of Gales Creek on August 14, 1933. The exact cause of the first fire is unknown; however, the common narrative states that as logging crews were wrapping up operations early due to fire hazard restrictions, a steel cable dragging a fallen Douglas fir rubbed against the dry bark of a wind-fallen snag.
Feb. 23—WASHINGTON — At the White House on Friday, leaders from four Northwest tribes, along with the governors of Washington and Oregon, signed a major agreement intended to restore salmon ...
It boasts a thriving wine industry and was the home of Evergreen Aviation. Yamhill County ranks seventh out of Oregon's thirty-six counties in annual market value of its agricultural production. [ citation needed ] This agricultural production includes wheat , barley , horticulture , and dairy farming , with 13,201 acres or 53.42 square ...
In 1950, Brooks-Scanlon bought the neighboring Shevlin-Hixon sawmill. The acquisition included the Shevlin-Hixon sawmill and adjacent property, all of its railroad and logging equipment, and large tracts of central Oregon timber lands along with the associated water rights. [34] [42] [43] The Shevlin-Hixon sawmill was closed at the end of 1950.