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John C. Ainsworth (1822–1893), businessman and co-founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, built this house in 1851, where he lived until Portland supplanted Oregon City as the commercial center of the Northwest. Its monumental Neoclassical design and imposing two-story, pillared portico made it unique in its period. [8] 2: Daniel ...
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon (9 P) Pages in category "Farms in Oregon" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Coastal Farm & Ranch is an American retail company with 21 stores in the Pacific Northwest region. It primarily sells home improvement goods, farm and outdoor equipment, tools, and clothing for a rural clientele. [1] The company was founded in 1963 and operated as a family-owned business until its acquisition by private equity firm Nolan ...
The oldest of ten buildings on this farm is the cross-wing western farmhouse that was completed in 1883. Other buildings include a two-story barn, a privy, a woodshed, and a chicken coop, amongst other structures. The farm was settled in the 1850s, with the newest building a garage completed in the 1920s. [16] 21
The Multnomah County Poor Farm is a former poor farm located in Troutdale, Oregon, United States.Established in 1911, the building and its surrounding grounds operated as a poor farm housing the ill and indigent populations in the Portland metropolitan area at the beginning of the twentieth century, after the closure of a poor farm in the city's West Hills.
Wilco is a farmer-owned farm supply cooperative that began as the Santiam Farmers Co-op in the 1930s [1] based in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1967, the Santiam Farmers Co-op merged with 4 other co-ops, the Mt. Angel Farmers Union Warehouse, the Donald Farmers Co-op, the Valley Farmers Co-op in Silverton , and the Canby ...
Philip Foster (January 29, 1805 – March 17, 1884) was one of the first settlers in Oregon, United States.The farmstead he established in Eagle Creek in 1847 became a stopping post for pioneers heading west along the Oregon Trail.
The first Dari Mart store opened in 1965 as a way to market the farm's dairy products. Gladys and Howard Gibson established Lochmead Farms in 1941, and has been owned for three generations by the Gibson family of Junction City, Oregon. Today, about 20 Gibson family members spread across three generations work with the Dari Mart and Lochmead ...