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The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) is an organization that encourages and promotes the study and understanding of the history of the State of Oregon, within the broader context of U.S. history. Incorporated in 1898, the Society collects, preserves, and makes available materials of historical character and interest, and collaborates with other ...
Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, ... The Clackamas County Historical Society archives, housed in the Museum of the Oregon Territory, ...
Website, Oregon culture, early photography, Industry, Oregon City & Willamette Falls, operated by the Clackamas County Historical Society National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center: Baker City: Baker Eastern History History, natural history and cultural history of the settlement of the Oregon Trail: Newell House Museum: St. Paul: Marion
The Oregon Historical Society Museum is a history museum housed at the Oregon Historical Society in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The museum was created in 1898 and receives about 44,000 visitors annually. It houses the Portland Penny that decided the city’s name. [1]
Oregon was a remote state, little known east of the Rockies. In the 1900 U.S. presidential election, only 83,000 men voted, and Republican William McKinley won by a landslide. New York City Muckraker Lincoln Steffens was surprised when he visited in 1908 to discover that:
Location: Vancouver, Washington and Oregon City, Oregon, USA: Nearest city: Vancouver, Washington, and Oregon City, Oregon: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 207 acres (84 ha) [2]: Established: June 19, 1948 (national monument) June 30, 1961 (national historic site): Visitors: 710,439 (in 2011) [3]: Governing body: National Park Service: Website: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site: Fort Vancouver ...
The City Builders: One Hundred Years of Union Carpentry in Portland, Oregon, 1883–1983. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990. Carl Abbott. "Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (1992): 293-322. Harvey, Thomas. "Portland, Oregon: Regional City in a Global ...
Corbett was the founding President of the Portland Pioneer Association in 1872, the forerunner of the Oregon Historical Society, founded in 1892 (his grandson, Elliott R. Corbett, was a subsequent President of the OHS when he obtained the land where the Oregon Historical Society museum and building is now located on S.W. Park Avenue, opposite ...