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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. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 22, 2024.
Benton County was created on December 23, 1847, by an act of the Provisional Government of Oregon. [3] The county was named after Democratic Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, an advocate of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the belief that the American government should control the whole of the Oregon Country.
The people of Benton County have been using Bellfountain Park for over 100 years. The park has a large barbeque pit , softball field, sand volleyball court, horseshoe pits , and restrooms. There is also a covered picnic shelter with a kitchen area and one of the longest picnic tables in the world.
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It is an approximately 4-acre area. It has picnic tables, a swing set, and a shelter. It is maintained by volunteers. This is a great place to bring the family and dog. Alpine is on the Benton County Scenic Loop, a scenic driving route. [6] To the west of Alpine is the Woodhall Vineyard, a research vineyard operated by Oregon State University. [7]
Kings Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is located on the Luckiamute River and Oregon Route 223, the Kings Valley Highway. As of the 2023 census population estimates it had a population of 147. [2]
After emigrating across the Oregon Trail in 1846, Augustus Fanno settled this land claim — the twelfth claim filed at the Oregon City Land Office and the first in what is now Washington County. Fanno built the New England-style farmhouse with neoclassical details in 1859. The farm continued in productive operation until the 1940s, and the ...
Lewis Southworth, also identified as Louis Southworth (1830–1917), was an American pioneer in Oregon who settled a donation land claim in 1880 near Waldport in the U.S. state of Oregon. Southworth was born into slavery and brought to the Oregon Territory by his enslaver, from whom he bought his freedom with cash, earned chiefly from his ...