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As more Rajneeshees moved to Antelope, more of the town's original residents sold their lots and left. The old-timers panicked, and held a vote to disincorporate. [16] Apiary: 1889 Columbia: D Currently, Apiary Road is a popular freight route for forest products moving from the Northern Oregon Coast Range to markets in Longview, Washington. [17 ...
There are listings in all of Oregon's 36 counties. The National Register of Historic Places recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to more than 2,000 NRHP listings. [3]
Oakland, Oregon: 1859 Residence Moved from Old Town Oakland in the 1870s to its current location; part of the Oakland Historic District: Waller Hall: Salem, Oregon: 1867 University building Oldest university building in use on West Coast [5] Cape Blanco Lighthouse: Curry County, Oregon: 1870 Lighthouse Oldest remaining lighthouse in the state
Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state and was the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. [6] The county is the northwest corner of Oregon, and Astoria is located on the south shore of the Columbia River, where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean.
Location of Lane County in Oregon. This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Lane County, Oregon, United States, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them.
April 13, 1992 (Mount Hood National Forest [a: Wamic to Rhododendron: Beginning with its construction by Sam Barlow in 1846, this toll road provided the first overland connection for wagons between The Dalles and Oregon City over Mount Hood, and offered a majority of Oregon Trail emigrants an alternative to the hazardous raft passage down the Columbia River from The Dalles to Fort Vancouver.
Founded in 1852 as a mining town, Jacksonville became the principal financial and commercial center of southern Oregon until it was bypassed by the railroad. Its group of surviving, unaltered commercial and residential buildings spans the full range of architectural styles employed in the West between 1850 and 1890. The town's unusual state of ...
Oregon Territory (1848-1853/1859), established by the United States Congress and approved by the President, two years after its sovereignty over the southern portion of the region was established by the Oregon Treaty of June 1846, splitting the earlier Oregon Country with the northern portion going to Great Britain / future Canada.