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Significant US Post Offices in Oregon 1900-1941 TR (5 P) Pages in category "Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The United States Post Office building in Scappoose, Oregon, is the current post office serving the local community (as of 2016) and a recognized historic structure. Built in 1966, it is an essentially intact example of the "Thousand Series" facilities [ a ] built under the direction of the Post Office Department in the late 1950s and the 1960s.
Rainier was incorporated in 1881. [5] For much of the last quarter of the twentieth century, Rainier was known to the rest of Oregon as home to Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, the only commercial nuclear reactor in the state, which supplied electricity to Portland and its suburbs starting in March 1976. The reactor was closed periodically due to ...
The community was named after nearby Christmas Lake, usually dry, east of the present town and the site of the former Lake post office, which ran from 1906 until 1943. [2] [3] Real estate development around a planned community by M. Penn Phillips, called Christmas Valley, started after World War II.
The term "post-office" [3] has been in use since the 1650s, [4] shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. [5] In early modern England, post riders—mounted couriers—were placed, or "posted", [6] every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or "post towns".
The Warner Valley is located in south-central Oregon. It is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long and 8 miles (13 km) wide. Most of the valley is in Lake County; however, the north end of the valley extends about 10 miles (16 km) into Harney County. The valley has two regions commonly referred to as the South Warner Valley and the North Warner ...
Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon: Mural artist: Lucia Wiley: Architectural style: Classical Revival: MPS: Significant US Post Offices in Oregon 1900-1941 TR: NRHP reference No. 85000546 [1] Added to NRHP: March 1, 1985
Ironside is an unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. [1] The community is 46 miles (74 km) northwest of Vale along U.S. Route 26. [2] Ironside has a post office with ZIP Code 97908. [3]