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Transportation in Linn County, Oregon (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Linn County, Oregon" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The county is named in the honor of Lewis F. Linn, [3] a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American settlement of the Oregon Country. Linn County comprises the Albany, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Willamette Valley.
Linn–Benton Community College (LBCC) is a public community college with five locations in Linn County, Oregon and Benton County, Oregon. LBCC is the sixth largest of Oregon's seventeen community colleges, educating more than 12,000 students per year. The college offers more than 80 degree programs and certificates. [4]
Syracuse was founded by Kentucky native Milton Hale, a pioneer who came to the Oregon Country on the Oregon Trail from Burlington, Iowa in 1845. [3] [2] He established a ferry on the Santiam River downstream from what is now Jefferson. [3] Hale's Ferry became an important crossing point for the expansion of Oregon Trail settlers into Linn and ...
Albany (/ ˈ æ l b ə n i / AL-bə-nee) is the county seat of Linn County, [11] Oregon, and is the 11th most populous city in the state. [12] Albany is located in the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the Calapooia River and the Willamette River in both Linn and Benton counties, just east of Corvallis and south of Salem.
Lebanon had a cheese factory, a creamery, potato warehouses, a cannery, and prune and nut driers. In the 1920s, the local grass-seed industry got its start, and by the 1930s Linn County was the leading county in grass-seed production in the United States. Lebanon's most celebrated crop has been strawberries.
Peoria is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Linn County, Oregon, United States. [2] It is on the right bank of the Willamette River at river mile 141 between Eugene and Corvallis.
Shedd is in western Linn County in the Willamette River valley, with Shedd Slough, a tributary of the Calapooia River, flowing northwards on the east side of town. Oregon Route 99E passes through the center of town, leading north 12 miles (19 km) to Albany and south 5 miles (8 km) to Halsey.