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Associated with Progressive causes, Malarkey presided over the Oregon Senate during its 1913 session, when the legislature passed landmark bills establishing a minimum wage and regulating public utilities. In private legal practice, he played a key part in the ultimately successful battle against the 1922 Oregon School Law. [18] 128
There are listings in all of Oregon's 36 counties. The National Register of Historic Places recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts 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 more than 2,000 NRHP listings. [3]
This stately house, built in the late 1880s, is one of the finest examples of Italianate residential architecture in Oregon City. It was built for prominent citizen Harvey Cross, a county judge and state senator, investor in real estate and transportation infrastructure, [b] and promoter of the Chautauqua movement in Oregon. [14] 24: Damascus ...
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 54 of those are found in Coos County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025.
The only remaining 19th century fishing homestead in Oregon, this complex was built by Henry Gulick on the Columbia riverbank in the 1890s. He included a church for his wife, Harriet, a member of the Wasco people. The church was the smallest of five Indian Shaker Church congregations in the state. [26] 18: Joseph D. and Margaret Kelly House
Once the project failed due to a lack of water and sewer access, the developers put the estate up for sale. [2] [4] The Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District purchased the Jenkins estate in 1976 for $525,000. [5] In 1978, the estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Belle Ainsworth Jenkins Estate. [2] [4]
The Oregon Beach Bill (House Bill 1601, 1967) was a piece of landmark legislation in the U.S. state of Oregon, passed by the 1967 session of the Oregon Legislature.It established public ownership of land along the Oregon Coast from the water up to sixteen vertical feet above the low tide mark.
The Imbrie family arrived in the mid-1840s as part of Oregon's first flood of white settlers. The Imbries came to Oregon from the Midwest, but the family's patriarch, James Imbrie, Jr., was born and raised in the Kingdom of Fife on the southeast coast of Scotland. James' sons, James III and Robert, each developed farms in Washington County.