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The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is an organization that encourages and promotes the study and understanding of the history of the Oregon Country, within the broader context of U.S. history. Incorporated in 1898, the Society collects, preserves, and makes available materials of historical character and interest, and collaborates with other ...
ohs.org. The Oregon Historical Society Museum is a history museum housed at the Oregon Historical Society in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The museum was created in 1898 and receives about 44,000 visitors annually. It houses the Portland Penny that decided the city’s name. [1] This 1835 copper penny was flipped to decide between ...
History of Oregon. The construction of dams, like The Dalles Dam, was central to the power supply of the region. The history of Oregon, a U.S. state, may be considered in five eras: geologic history, inhabitation by native peoples, early exploration by Europeans (primarily fur traders), settlement by pioneers, and modern development.
The encyclopedia is a project of Portland State University 's History Department, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society. It has drawn support from Oregon Cultural Trust partners Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, and the Oregon State Historic ...
Oregon Historical Quarterly. The Oregon Historical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed public history journal covering topics in the history of the U.S. state of Oregon, for both an academic and a general audience. [1] It has been published continuously on a quarterly schedule by the Oregon Historical Society since 1900. [2]
LCCN 2003-20467. Oregon Geographic Names is a compilation of the origin and meaning of place names in the U.S. state of Oregon, published by the Oregon Historical Society. The book was originally published in 1928. It was compiled and edited by Lewis A. McArthur. As of 2011, the book is in its seventh edition, which was compiled and edited by ...
In 1996, the Museum merged with the Jewish History Society of Oregon and acquired their archives, comprising major collections of organizational records, family papers, photographs and ephemeral materials dating from 1850 to the present—the largest collection of the documented and visual history of Oregon's Jews. The Oregon Historical Society ...
The Oregon History Project. Oregon Historical Society. Columbia Villa, a housing development for defense workers built in North Portland in the early 1940s; Memories of the 1948 Vanport Flood Personal recollections of life in Vanport, living through the flood, and its aftermath, from Oregon Historical Quarterly; Geiling, Natasha (February 18 ...