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A series of owners adapted the mill to changing times turning the flour mill to a feed mill and eventually a hydroelectric plant operating until 2004, making it one of Oregon's oldest continuously operating water-powered businesses. Oregon State Parks purchased the property in 2004 and the park was opened to the public in December 2007.
In 1983, the State of Oregon transferred ownership of 13 acres (5.3 ha) of park land to the City of Sisters. [2] The area given to the city is all on the west side of U.S. Route 20. The city used the land to create two municipal parks adjacent to the remaining state park property.
Bullards Beach State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.. The park was acquired between 1962 and 1985 by purchase from various owners, including the U. S. Bureau of Land Management.
Oregon State Parks (Hover mouse over pog to pop up clickable link.) This is a list of state parks and other facilities managed by the State Parks and Recreation Department of Oregon . The variety of locales and amenities of the parks reflect the diverse geography of Oregon, including beaches, forests, lakes, rock pinnacles , and deserts.
1851: Willamette Stone sited, became the basis for property lines throughout Oregon and Washington. 1862: Homestead Act (in effect till 1976, and 1986 in Alaska) October 27, 1868: Corvallis College (now Oregon State University) was designated Oregon's first and only Land Grant College under the federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.
Shore Acres State Park is a state park 13 miles (21 km) south of Coos Bay in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] It is one of three state parks along the Cape Arago Highway, which runs along the Pacific Ocean west of U.S. Route 101. Sunset Bay State Park is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Shore Acres, and Cape Arago State Park is about a mile south. [3]
The land for this park was donated to the State of Oregon in 1961 by the property's owner, Harlan D. Ellmaker (1881-1978), a retired employee of the United States Forest Service. [2] Born in Oregon in 1881, Ellmaker was a grand nephew of a member of the prominent Ellmaker family , a number of whom had relocated from Lancaster County ...
Oregon Parks and Recreation Fogarty Creek State Recreation Area is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon , administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department . History