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458 and 541. FIPS code. 41-00275 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2409661 [2] Website. adairvillage.org. Adair Village is a city in Benton County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,018 as of the 2023 census population estimates.
Camp Adair was a United States Army division training facility established north of Corvallis, Oregon, operating from 1942 to 1946. During its peak period of use, the camp was home to approximately 40,000 persons — enough to have constituted the second largest city in the state of Oregon. The camp was largely scrapped as government surplus ...
The 104th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. Today, it is known as the 104th Training Division (Leader Training) and based at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a training unit of the United States Army Reserve. Activated in 1921 and deployed during World War II, the division saw almost 200 days of fighting in ...
Bethenia Angelina Owens was born on February 7, 1840, in Van Buren County, Missouri to Tom and Sarah (Damron) Owens. [1] When Owens was three years old, her family, including her parents and two siblings, Diana and Flem, left their home to start a homestead on the American frontier. The family traveled to the Oregon Country via the Oregon Trail ...
The 70th Infantry Division ("Trailblazers" [1]) was a unit of the United States Army in World War II, spearheading the Seventh United States Army 's drive into Germany, south of Saarbrücken. Activated at Camp Adair, Oregon, in 1943, the 70th Division served throughout World War II in the European Theater of Operations, the division was ...
The Oregon Maneuver was the largest military field exercise ever conducted in the Pacific Northwest. It involved over 100,000 army troops, many of them from Camp Adair, Camp White, and combat engineers training center at Camp Abbot. Camp Abbot was used as the exercise headquarters because of its military infrastructure and location near Bend in ...
Santiam Christian High School was founded in 1979. SC offered grades 9, 10 and 11 with an enrollment of 55 students. In June 1980 Santiam Christian moved to Adair Village. In 1981 SC graduated its first class of 20 students. [4] In 1986 the purchase of 12 buildings and 16.5 acres from US Government was finalized for $1.
On 30 January 1942, the unit was reorganized as an element of the 96th Infantry Division, and redesignated as the 321st Engineer Battalion. The battalion was ordered to active service along with the 96th Infantry Division on 15 August 1942. This time, they were organized at Camp Adair, Oregon as the 321st