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As of 2014, BARK was still battling with the state and Nestlé to prevent a bottling plant at the Cascade Locks that Nestlé proposes building. [9] BARK's position is that the $50-million, 250,000-square-foot water bottling plant would take public water and give it to a private corporation.
16 farms were blown away and the town of Grinnell was devastated, as well as the Grinnell College campus. Debris was carried 100 mi (160 km). Estimated F5. Caused 68 fatalities according to Grazulis. April 1883 Southeast tornado outbreak: April 22–23, 1883: Southeastern United States – ≥109 fatalities, ≥755 injuries
The re-christened Arago sank at the same location. Steam schooner: Coos Bay: T.W. Lucas: 24 October 1894: Brig: Port Orford: Bawnmore: 28 August 1895: Steamship: Bandon: Ella Laurena: 18 December 1895: Abandoned by crew during a storm. Found ran aground the next day. Schooner: Coos Bay: Arago: 20 October 1896: Struck bar previously in 1891 at ...
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.
Mount Vernon is a city in Grant County, Oregon, United States. Its post office was established in 1877 and named after a black stallion that belonged to settler David W. Jenkins. The stallion's stable , a small stone building, is still standing in a field on the north side of U.S. Highway 26 about 2.2 miles (3.5 km) east of the main ...
Kelly Butte Natural Area is a city park of about 23 acres (9.3 ha) in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, just east of Interstate 205.The park is named after pioneer Clinton Kelly, who settled the area east of the Willamette River in 1848. [2]
Kerns is a neighborhood in the inner Northeast and Southeast sections of Portland, Oregon.It borders the Lloyd District and Sullivan's Gulch on the north, Laurelhurst on the east, Buckman and Sunnyside on the south, and (across the Willamette River) Old Town Chinatown on the west.
Cully is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon and a former census-designated place (CDP). The neighborhood, as well as NE Cully Blvd. that runs diagonally through it, is named after English stonemason Thomas Cully (1810–1891), an early settler. [ 2 ]