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Miller is a former community in Sherman County, Oregon, United States, established circa 1860. [1] It was named for Thomas Jefferson Miller, [ 2 ] a settler of the area, also for which Miller Island on the Columbia River takes its name. [ 1 ]
Dundee Lodge is a farm with several buildings built in the 1920s located near Gaston in the U.S. state of Oregon. The rustic property in rural Washington County was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Also known as the Dee Brook Farm (or Deebrook Farm), the property contains three buildings designed by E. E. Green.
Reid came to Oregon in 1874 to establish the Oregonian Railway, and made several extensions to the railroad in the western Willamette Valley. The first post office in the area, established in 1881, was called Ekins. The Ekins post office was closed in 1885, and in 1887 a new office opened and was named "Dundee Junction."
Miller Farm or Miller Farmstead may refer to: United States (by state) Miller Farmstead (La Crosse, Kansas), listed on the listed on the National Register of ...
He wanted a name for the community that was connected with fruit growing, but his choice of "Appleton" was already taken by a place in Oregon. His cousin then suggested the name of her home of Cherry Grove, Minnesota. Lovegren established a sawmill in the community and in September 1911 began operating a private electricity grid in Cherry Grove ...
The fruit is a juicy red or purple cherry 7–14 mm (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) diameter, which, as the plant's English name suggests, are bitter. [3] As well as reproducing by seed, it also sends out underground stems which then sprout above the surface to create a thicket. [4] [5] [6]
The high desert of Oregon is located in the central and southeastern parts of the state. It covers approximately 24,000 square miles (62,000 km 2), extending approximately 200 miles (320 km) from central Oregon east to the Idaho border and 130 mi (210 km) from central Oregon south to the Nevada border. [1]
1843: 18-year-old Edward Henry Lenox (from Kentucky) travels over the Oregon Trail and stakes a claim to the present farm site. 1850-59: Robert Imbrie acquires the Lenox farm and builds the current granary. 1863-66: Robert has the three-story, gabled farm home built. 1897: Robert dies. 1933: Imbries begin selling barley to Blitz-Weinhard.