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Bend is a city in central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located to the east of the Cascade Range , on the Deschutes River . The site became known by pioneers as a fordable crossing point of the river, where it ran through a bend.
Lan Su Chinese Garden (simplified Chinese: 兰苏园; traditional Chinese: 蘭蘇園; pinyin: Lán Sū Yuán; Jyutping: Laan 4 Sou 1 Jyun 4), formerly the Portland Classical Chinese Garden and titled the Garden of Awakening Orchids, is a walled Chinese garden enclosing a full city block, roughly 40,000 square feet (4,000 m 2) in the Chinatown area of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of ...
Mount Angel Abbey is a Catholic monastery of Benedictine monks located in Saint Benedict, Oregon, northeast of Salem, it was established 143 years ago in 1882 from Engelberg Abbey, in Switzerland. The abbey, located on the top of Mount Angel , a 485-foot-high butte (148 m), [ 1 ] has its own post office separate from the city of Mt. Angel.
[6] Oregon's shipping was growing, too, fueled by a $1.5 million project to dike and dredge the Columbia River. [7] During this time, Oregon's population grew from 13,294 in 1850 to 413,536 in 1900, a 3,000-percent growth, compared to the 1000-percent growth of the nation as a whole. [8]
The Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS) was formed in 1946 to save the endangered 1880s Jackson County Courthouse. [15] The society opened the Jacksonville Museum in the courthouse building on July 10, 1950, [ 16 ] and operated it until it closed in 2006 because of lack of funding; as of 2014 the courthouse, which is now owned by the City ...
Nevada (/ n ə ˈ v æ d ə,-v ɑː-/ ⓘ nə-VAD-ə, - VAH-, [5] [6] Spanish:) is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States. [c] It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east.
Kansas City has 132 miles (212 km) of boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 baseball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, 5 golf courses, 5 museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters. [121] [122] These amenities are found across the city.
The airport is located 10 mi (16 km; 8.7 nmi) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The airport covers 4,700 acres (7.3 sq mi; 19 km 2 ) of land and has five parallel runways which are aligned in an east–west direction.