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Wikipedia =Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon. It has an undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences, a School of Law, and a Graduate School of Education and Counseling. Lewis & Clark is a member of the Annapolis Group of colleges with athletic programs competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III Northwest Conference. ...
Celilo Falls on the Columbia River served as a gathering place and major trading center for the local Native Americans, including the Wasco, Paiute, and Warm Springs tribes, for thousands of years. These rapids came to be named Les Grandes Dalles de la Columbia or "The Great Falls of the Columbia" by the French Canadian fur traders. The Dalles initially served as a way station on the Oregon Tr...
In Wasco County, take Cherry Heights Road up the hill from West 6th Street to West 13th Street past St. Peter's Cemetery on the right hand side. The driveways is about 100 yards beyond West 13th Street on the left hand side. This cemetery was called Sunset Cemetery until the Odd Fellows took it over in 1885. The GAR and Wasco County Cemeteries are next to the IOOF Cemetery. Wasco County Townshi...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Wikipedia Oregon State University (OSU) is a coeducational, public research university in the northwest United States, located in Corvallis, Oregon. The university offers more than 200 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs and has the largest total enrollment in Oregon. More than 230,000 people have graduated from OSU since its founding. The Carnegie Foundation classifies Oregon ...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition stayed for the winter of 1805–6 in the area, establishing Fort Clatsop as one of the earliest American structures on the west coast of North America. Astoria, Oregon's oldest settlement, was established as a fur trading post in 1811 and named after John Jacob Astor. Clatsop County was created from the northern and western portions of the original Twality District...
The University of Oregon (also referred to as UO or Oregon) is a public flagship research university located in Eugene, Oregon. UO was founded in 1876. The institution's campus is 295 acres in size and is situated along the Willamette River. Since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university is classified as having very high research activ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Portland, Oregon. Official Website Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Multnomah County, Oregon. The area of the lower Willamette River has been inhabited for thousands of years, including by the Multnomah band of Chinookan peoples long before European contact, as evidenced by the nearby Cathlapotle village, just downstream. Multnomah County (the 13th in Oregon Territory) was created on December 22, 18...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon. Links Wikipedia
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Eugene, Oregon. Official Website Eugene is the county seat of Lane County and is known as "Emerald City" and "Track Town, USA" Wikipedia French fur traders had settled seasonally in the Willamette Valley by the beginning of the 19th century. Having already developed relationships with Native communities through intermarriage and...
Wikipedia The county is named for the first Governor of the Oregon Territory & US Senator Joseph Lane . Elijah Bristow was the first white settler to stake a claim and build a permanent cabin in 1846 in the upper Willamette Valley, in what is now Lane County, Oregon, United States. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Oregon
This cemetery is located on 3900 Willamette Street, Eugene, Linn County, Oregon. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Oregon's Provisional Legislature on July 5, 1843, along with Twality (later Washington), Champooick (later Marion), and Yamhill. The four districts were redesignated as counties in 1845. At the time of its creation, Clackamas County covered portions of four present-day U.S. states and a Canadian pro...
Wikipedia Willamette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located about 10 miles southeast of the city of Portland, Oregon. Find a Grave
The Klamath or Clamitte tribe of Indians, for which Klamath County was named, are the descendants of varying cultures of indigenous peoples, who have lived in the area for more than 10,000 years. When European-Americans began to travel through the area in 1846 along the Applegate Trail, they competed with the Klamath for game and water, which precipitated clashes between the peoples. This was ...
The discovery of rich placers at Sailor Diggings (later known as Waldo) in 1852 and the resulting gold rush brought the first settlers to this region. Several U.S. Army forts were maintained in the county and many engagements during the Rogue River Indian War (1855–1858) took place within its boundaries. In 1851, a group of prospectors moved to the Illinois Valley and made the first discovery o...
Jefferson County was created on December 12, 1914, from a portion of Crook County. The county owes much of its agricultural prosperity to the railroad, which links Madras with the Columbia River, and was completed in 1911, and to the development of irrigation projects in the late 1930s. The railroad was completed despite constant feuds and battles between two lines working on opposite sides of ...
Idlewilde Fraternal Cemetery Association, Hood River, Oregon Twelve acres of land were deeded for burial purposes on November 23, 1894 by Robert F. and Josephine Hardwick in consideration of $400 paid by Idlewilde Lodge #107 Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I. O. O. F.), subject to the rules and regulations to be mutually agreed upon by Idlewilde Lodge #107 I. O. O. F., Hood River Lodge #105 ...
The first permanent settlers in present-day Hood River County filed a donation land claim in 1854. The first school was built in 1863 and a road from The Dalles was completed in 1867. By 1880 there were 17 families living in the valley. By the latter part of the nineteenth century farmers of Japanese, Finnish, German, and French ethnicity had settled in the valley. At the turn of the twentieth...
This cemetery is located on 1235 Tucker Road, Hood River, Oregon. It's also known as Knights of Pythias Cemetery . Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 11003 South McAlister Road, Island City, Union County, Oregon. Find a Grave
The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Yamhill (Yamhelas Indian Tribe, part of the Kalapooian family) Indians, who have inhabited the area for over 8,000 years. They are one of the tribes incorporated into the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. In 1857 they were forced to migrate to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation created in Oregon's Coastal Range two years earlier. The ea...
Located just south of Dayton, in Yamhill County, Oregon, go south on Hwy 221 toward Salem. Turn right (west) onto Thompson Lane. Go about one quarter mile to the cemetery on the right. Bordering the northwest corner of the Odd Fellows Cemetery is the older Goodrich Family Cemetery. Find a Grave
This cemetery is owned and maintained by the Lebanon Odd-Fellows Lodge. The following information is transcribed from the WPA Linn County Cemetery Survey, researched & prepared by Leslie L. Haskin on 2-19-1940. (Note: The Lebanon Odd-Fellows Cemetery lies adjacent to the Masonic Cemetery without dividing fences. The Odd-Fellows Cemetery lies in an L shape on a part of the William B. Gore donat...