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Dixie is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is along the Burnt River about 5 miles (8 km) north of Lime. [2] Dixie was so-named because it is near the confluence of the Burnt River and Dixie Creek, which in turn was named for the many gold miners from the U.S. South (nicknamed "Dixie") who worked on the creek. [2]
Dixie is an unincorporated historic community in Grant County, Oregon, United States. [1] It was a station on the Sumpter Valley Railway near Dixie Summit. [ 2 ] The station was named for Dixie Creek, a tributary of the John Day River near Prairie City . [ 2 ]
Dixie, Oregon may refer to one of these locations in the U.S. state of Oregon: Dixie, Baker County, Oregon, a former community and post office; Dixie, Grant County, Oregon, a former station on the Sumpter Valley Railway; Dixie, Klamath County, Oregon, a historic locale; Dixie, a nickname for the Polk County community of Rickreall, Oregon during ...
The Coast Reservation was established on November 9, 1855, by executive order for the coastal Indian tribes of Oregon. [1] It was intended for removal of tribes involved in the Rogue River Wars from southern Oregon, as well as for small struggling tribes whose land the federal government wanted to take over for European-American settlement.
Pages in category "Sisters, Oregon" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Balto (c. 1919 – March 14, 1933) was an Alaskan husky and sled dog belonging to musher and breeder Leonhard Seppala.He achieved fame when he led a team of sled dogs driven by Gunnar Kaasen on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the ...
As of 2008, there were nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon. [1] They are listed here by the names by which the governments call themselves. Their BIA names may be different. (See Native American tribes in Oregon for the individual tribes and bands.) Burns Paiute Tribe; Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
The indigenous Tillamook people lived along the Oregon coast, including the Manzanita area (tidewaters of the Nehalem Bay), for about 12,000 years. They suffered from smallpox and other illnesses brought by white settlers, and the few remaining Tillamook people were relocated to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations in the 1850s.