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The Portland Rose Festival is an annual civic festival held during the month of June in Portland, Oregon. It is organized by the volunteer non-profit Portland Rose Festival Foundation (named the Portland Rose Festival Association until the 2000s) with the purpose of promoting the Portland region. It includes three separate parades, along with a ...
Georgiana Martin Pittock (née Burton; November 14, 1843 – June 12, 1918) was an Oregon pioneer and community leader based in Portland, Oregon. She founded the Portland Rose Society in 1888. The society's annual rose show grew into a rose parade and pageant by 1906, and was the foundation for the Portland Rose Festival. Pittock was actively ...
The Rose City Park neighborhood in northeast Portland was formed in 1907, the same year of the first annual Portland Rose Festival. During World War I, nursery owners in Portland began planning a large rose garden to protect European rose varieties from the war. The garden was established in Washington Park as the International Rose Test Garden ...
The Royal Rosarians are the "official greeters and ambassadors" of Portland, Oregon. The group was founded in 1912. [1] Its members are most visible during the Portland Rose Festival or at events at the International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, and the Peninsula Park Rose Garden. Additionally, members, along with the elected Queen of ...
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Former Navy pilot, Jim Osborne, was the chairman of the Rose Festival Navy Committee and envisioned a full-scale airshow as part of the Portland Rose Festival.After the Rose Festival Association gave him the green light, he rounded up the top aerobatic acts in the country and enlisted the help of the U.S. Navy Recruiting to request the Blue Angels to headline for the first show in 1988.
Nancy Ryles. Nancy Ann Ryles (December 18, 1937 – September 12, 1990) was an Oregon politician. [4] She served in the Oregon House of Representatives, the Oregon Senate and as one of three members of the state's Public Utility Commission. She was known as an advocate for education and for equality for women and minorities. [4]
Portland, Oregon, United States. Coordinates. 45°31′08″N 122°42′20″W / . 45.51878°N 122.70559°W. / 45.51878; -122.70559. The Frank E. Beach Memorial Fountain, officially titled Water Sculpture, [1] [2] is an abstract 1975 stainless steel fountain and sculpture by artist Lee Kelly and architect James Howell, installed in ...