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Corvallis City Hall. Helen Berg served as mayor of Corvallis for three terms from 1994 until 2006. Berg was the first female mayor of Corvallis, and the longest-serving mayor of the city to date. [95] The current mayor is Charles Maughan, elected in 2022. [96] The City of Corvallis uses the City Council/City Manager form of government with a ...
January 27, 2000 (Roughly bounded by SW 2nd, 6th, and Jefferson Streets, and the Highway 20/34 Bypass: Corvallis: Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the historic houses in this residential district present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period.
Administrative Services, Department of; Agriculture, Department of; Air National Guard, Oregon (Oregon Military Department) Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board; Architect Examiners, Board of; Archives Division (Oregon Secretary of State) Arts Commission, Oregon (Oregon Economic and Community Development Department) Asian Affairs ...
Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946.During its peak period of use, the camp was home to approximately 40,000 persons — enough to have constituted the second largest city in the state of Oregon.
Benton County was created on December 23, 1847, by an act of the Provisional Government of Oregon. [3] The county was named after Democratic Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, an advocate of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the belief that the American government should control the whole of the Oregon Country.
The city of Corvallis began using the Rock Creek watershed on Marys Peak for its municipal water supply in 1906. As logging operations spread throughout the area, the Corvallis city government bought land in the Rock Creek watershed to preserve its water quality. [15] 13th Annual Mary's Peak Shrine Trek
At 2.5% in 2012, Oregon had the highest bicycle commuting mode share of any state (behind only Washington, D.C.) with the cities of Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, and Baker City each reporting bicycle commuting rates in excess of 5%. [16] [17] The 40-Mile Loop is a partially completed greenway trail around and through Portland in the U.S. State ...
This vote was the first time women were allowed to vote in a Corvallis election. [8] Construction was completed by the Coast Bridge Company on the project that would cost $70,000 [2] to build. [9] Andrew J. Porter was the designer of the span. [10] Funds came from the city, Linn County, private donations, and the largest portion from Benton ...