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1855 - October: A volunteer militia attacks a group of Takelma people who returned to an ancestral village, sparking the Rogue River Wars which lasted into 1856. 1858: The first railroad in Oregon, operated by the Cascade Railroad Company, serves the Columbia River Gorge. [15] 1859 - February 14: Oregon is granted statehood with its present ...
Mike Ekstrom (born 1983) – Major League Baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays; Sam Elliott (born 1944) – actor; LeRoy Ellis (1940–2012) – NBA basketball player [25] Jacoby Ellsbury (born 1983) – Major League Baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees [26] Harris Ellsworth (1899–1986) – member of U.S. Congress from Oregon
Oregon Territory (1848-1853/1859), established by the United States Congress and approved by the President, two years after its sovereignty over the southern portion of the region was established by the Oregon Treaty of June 1846, splitting the earlier Oregon Country with the northern portion going to Great Britain / future Canada.
1893 – Nov. 1: A streetcar plunges into the Willamette River from the Madison Street Bridge, the worst streetcar accident in the city's history; 1895 – City Hall built. 1896 – Union Station opens. 1898 – Oregon Historical Society established. 1900 Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society begins publication. [11] Population: 90,426. [1]
Oregon pioneer history (1806–1890) is the period in the history of Oregon Country and Oregon Territory, in the present day state of Oregon and Northwestern United States. It was the era when pioneers and mountain men , primarily of European descent, traveled west across North America to explore and settle the lands west of the Rocky Mountains ...
Bibliography of Oregon history; Oregon Bill of 1848; Oregon black exclusion laws; Oregon Centennial; Oregon Centennial Tokens; The Oregon Desert; Oregon Historical Society; Oregon land fraud scandal; Oregon Pioneer Association; Oregon Rifles; Oregon tax revolt; Oregon Territory; Oregon Trail
The Oregon Country Fair has supported artful and joyous lifestyles since 1969 but hit a few bumps along the way. Here are some of the key dates. Oregon Country Fair timeline: A 55-year odyssey of ...
Contemporarily, it is the most populous city in Oregon, and the second-largest city in the Pacific Northwest. [1] This list of notable people includes persons who were either born in, are current residents of, or have lived in Portland. A person who lives in or comes from Portland, Oregon is called a Portlander