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Bethel is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. [1] It sits at the base of the Eola Hills in Plum Valley. Bethel is considered a ghost town as the only remaining structure is a school, [2] now serving as a church. The locale was named by the Rev. Glen O. Burnett for a Church of Christ in Missouri where he had served ...
John Burnett (July 4, 1831 – March 1, 1901 [1]) was an American judge in the state of Oregon.He was the 24th associate justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.A native of Missouri, he also served as a county and circuit court judge in Oregon, and was elected to the Oregon State Senate.
George Henry Burnett (May 9, 1853 – September 10, 1927) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 21st chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving twice as chief first in 1921 to 1923, and then in 1927 when he died in office. Overall he served on Oregon’s highest court from 1911 until 1927.
The Tolowa Tribe, or the Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni' is a Native American tribe from northwestern California and southern Oregon. In the Spring of 1853, a group of prospectors headed by a man by the name of "California Jack" started from Crescent City on a prospecting journey. They planned to go to a place near the Smith River.
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.
Portland: Oregon Historical Society: 196– 211. ISSN 0030-4727. JSTOR 20613303. McClintock, Thomas C. (1995). "James Saules, Peter Burnett, and the Oregon Black Exclusion Law of June 1844". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 86 (3): 121– 130. ISSN 0030-8803. JSTOR 40491550. Taylor, Quintard (1982). "Slaves and Free Men: Blacks in the Oregon ...
George H. Himes, "Organizers of the First Government in Oregon," Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 3 (July 1915), pp. 162–167. In JSTOR; Frederick V. Holman, "A Brief History of the Oregon Provisional Government and What Caused Its Formation," Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 1912), pp. 89–139.
The National Register recognizes places 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 over 2,000, [ 3 ] and 57 of those are found in Benton County.