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Joseph is a city in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. Originally named Silver Lake and Lake City , the city formally named itself in 1880 for Chief Joseph (1840–1904) of the Nez Perce people .
Oregon's unofficial nickname is "The Beaver State". [10] [43] Unofficial slogans for Oregon include "things look different here" and "Oregon, We Love Dreamers", the latter of which alludes to the "basic sense of idealism" of the state's culture. [44] In the 1950s and 60s, Oregon license plates featured the unofficial motto, "Pacific Wonderland ...
Pages in category "Joseph, Oregon" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This list of cities and unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Oregon includes all incorporated cities and many unincorporated communities, arranged in alphabetical order. Unincorporated communities are identified with italic type. Cities are the only form of municipal government incorporated in Oregon. [1]
The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture is a community-based arts center located in Joseph, Oregon, United States. It hosts monthly exhibits, a variety of workshops, classes, film showings, and guest speakers. The Center is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit [1] and is run almost entirely through grants and donations.
The Joseph Canyon Viewpoint, at a highway pullout along Oregon Route 3, is one of 38 sites that form the Nez Perce National Historical Park. The viewpoint is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Enterprise, Oregon , and 11 miles (18 km) south of the Washington border, in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest .
Chief Joseph Mountain is located five miles south of Joseph, Oregon, in the Wallowa Mountains. It is set within the Eagle Cap Wilderness on land managed by Wallowa–Whitman National Forest . [ 2 ] The peak ranks as the 14th-highest summit in Oregon, [ 3 ] and the 8th-highest of the Wallowa Mountains. [ 2 ]
On Alvin Josephy's death in 2005 his personal collection at Greenwich, Connecticut, and Joseph, Oregon, was divided between the Knight Library at the University of Oregon, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and Fishtrap: [2] [3] Rich Wandschneider, then director of Fishtrap, went to Connecticut to retrieve materials. [4]