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Oregon Pioneer, also known as Gold Man, [1] is an eight-and-a-half ton bronze sculpture with gold leaf finish that sits atop the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, United States. Created by Ulric Ellerhusen, the statue is a 22 ft (7 m)-tall hollow sculpture. The gilded piece was installed atop the building in 1938 when a new capitol was built.
The Mercury, later The Sunday Mercury, was a weekly newspaper founded in Salem, Oregon in 1869, [1] and moved to Portland a few years later. [2] Oregon writer Homer Davenport described approaching the Mercury when he arrived in Portland as a young man, and being sent to New Orleans to cover and draw pictures of the Fitzsimmons-Dempsey fight.
Larry Ralph Peyton [6] was a 19-year-old sophomore at Portland State College in Oregon; his girlfriend, Beverly Ann Allan, originally from Port Townsend, Washington, was a student at Western Washington University. [7] The two had met in the summer of 1960 while working at Crater Lake National Park, where Peyton's father operated a motor lodge. [8]
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
Superintenent of Oregon state Penitentiary killed by escaped inmate: John K. Giles: Oregon: Sentenced to life in prison but escaped: Robert Folkes: Train near Tangent: 1943-01-23: Black man convicted and executed for the murder of a white woman on a train, historical works question his guilt: Oak Grove Jane Doe: Oak Grove: 1946
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The 3.5-ton statue was cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York and was gifted to the State of Oregon in 1924. It was presented "in reverent and grateful remembrance of Robert Booth, pioneer minister of the Oregon Country" by his son, Robert Asbury Booth, who was a prominent Eugene businessman and Oregon State Highway Commissioner. [1] [3]
Tommy Vu collapses with his wife, Linda, and one-month-old son, Adonis, by his side after completing the world record of 611 burpee pull-ups in one hour on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 at West Coast ...