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• the United States Army's Camp Warner in south central Oregon was so cold that on several occasions the camp's entire detachment of soldiers had to walk in circles all night to keep from freezing?
• the A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum in Prineville, Oregon, was opened in 1971 and is housed in the historic Crook County Bank Building?
• the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience?
• the Amalgamated Sugar Company, the second-largest polluter of sulfur dioxide in Oregon in 1995, marketed its White Satin sugar as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar"?
• the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
• the Scottish investment company Alliance Trust was formed in 1888 from companies providing loans to immigrant farmers in Oregon?
• the fault block that forms the main ridgeline of the Pueblo Mountains in southeastern Oregon (pictured) is tilted at a 45 degree angle?
• the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon?
• the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians?
• the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
• the Audubon Society of Portland, Oregon, USA, rehabilitates 3,500 animals and has over 20,000 hours volunteered each year?
• the Chetco (pictured) were once one of the largest Native American tribes on the southern coast of Oregon, but now only about 40 of their descendants remain?
• the Goodpasture Covered Bridge (pictured) spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?
• the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
• the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling?
• the Lava River Cave in Newberry National Volcanic Monument is the longest known uncollapsed lava tube in Oregon, U.S.?
• the Gilchrist State Forest is the first new state forest in Oregon since 1948?
• the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond, Oregon, is the city's oldest church?
• the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon?
• the Fred and Esther Dundee House in Oregon was built for race car driver Fred Dundee?
• the Eugene Saturday Market in Eugene, Oregon, is the oldest weekly open-air crafts market in the United States and is attended by 3,000 and 5,000 people every week?
• the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
• the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?
• in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
• in 1944 the Summer Lake Wildlife Area became the first wildlife refuge in Oregon specifically established to preserve wetland habitat?
• in 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in the United States?
• in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill making Oregon the first U.S. state to require prescriptions for cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine?
• gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon, the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?
• figure skater Tonya Harding was once treated at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Oregon for injuries from an assault?
• at its peak, the historic James Cant Ranch (pictured) in Oregon occupied 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) and sent 500–600 cattle to market each year?
• attorney William Lair Hill codified the laws of both the states of Oregon and Washington?
• during an 1864 expedition to resupply Army posts in eastern Oregon, Captain John M. Drake discovered fossils in the area that is now the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument?
• eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel, a Queen Anne-style, Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland, Oregon in 1890?
• in Treasure Valley, on the borders of Oregon and Idaho, is the largest community of Basques outside of Europe?
• in Breaking the Spell, the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon?
• on August 24, 2009, an algae bloom hit Wickiup Reservoir, dubbed as Oregon's best fishing for brown trout?
• over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with the Bend Bulletin, Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom McCall, who later became governor of Oregon?
• residential lots in the Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District of Bend, Oregon—with views of the Deschutes River and the Cascades Mountains—originally sold for US$100 to US$250?
• the "Old Perpetual" geyser (pictured) at Hunter's Hot Springs in Lake County, Oregon, releases a plume of near-boiling water 50 to 60 feet (15–18 m) into the air every 90 seconds?
• no one knows the age of the Greaser Petroglyphs located in eastern Lake County, Oregon, USA, but they could be up to 12,000 years old?
• most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression?
• in choosing between the names Portland and Boston, Francis Pettygrove (pictured) and Asa Lovejoy, the founders of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, settled the question by a coin toss?
• in the Oregon ghost town of Boyd only the wheat fields are still operational?
• most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
• the Little Blitzen River is a tributary of Oregon's Donner und Blitzen River and part of the first redband trout reserve in the United States?
• the Marble Mountain Wilderness has one of only two stands of subalpine fir tree in California, and both are more than 50 miles (80 km) from the next closest stand in southern Oregon?
• the largest water slide in the U.S. state of Oregon is Thrill-Ville USA in the city of Turner?
• the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?
• the original U.S. Forest Service ranger's cabin at Allison Ranger Station in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon was built in 1911?
• the pioneer wagon route known as the Applegate Trail, opened in 1846 by Jesse Applegate, crossed the southern end of the Goose Lake Valley on the way to southern Oregon?
• the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon, was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
• the historic Unity Ranger Station in northeastern Oregon has had a 60-foot high fire lookout tower (pictured) with a built-in water tank located on the compound since 1938?
• the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon?
• the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
• the historic N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend, Oregon?
• the historic P Ranch in Oregon, owned by cattle baron Peter French, covered 140,000 acres (570 km²) and required 500 miles of barbed wire fence for protection?
• the planned Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon is expected to be the world's biggest wind farm on land when completed?
• the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon, United States, which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment, prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
• water from the Little Applegate River was used in the mine in Sterlingville, the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon and possibly the entire western United States?
• when Katherine Ann Power, a fugitive from justice for 23 years before turning herself in, was on the run in Oregon, she was treated for depression by Courtney Love's mother?
• when the New Redmond Hotel opened, it was billed as Oregon's finest hotel east of the Cascade Mountains with rooms from $1 per day?
• with hundreds of birds found in the state (Western Meadowlark pictured), Oregon ranks fifth in the United States in terms of avian species diversity?
• two teenagers built booby traps inspired by Rambo at a park in the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District in Oregon?
• though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
• the site of Riddle Ranch (pictured) in eastern Oregon was a Native American settlement for over 1,000 years?
• the size of Fish Lake in Oregon, USA, taking water over the Cascade Divide via the Cascade Canal from nearby Fourmile Lake, is now three times larger than it was before 1902?
• the southern terminus of the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon?
• the district office at the Bly Ranger Station (pictured) in south central Oregon was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 at a cost of $1,700?
• the defunct Portland University in Oregon had only one building, so the school bookstore was a nearby general store?
• the Redmond Caves in Oregon were considered for potato storage as early as the 1910s?
• the Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford, Oregon, receives patients from as far as 200 miles (320 km) away?
• the Stone Bridge near Hart Mountain in Lake County, Oregon, is completely underwater?
• the Tiller Ranger Station in southern Oregon served as the administrative headquarters for five different Umpqua National Forest ranger districts?
• the Peace Candle of the World, a 50-foot candle-like structure in Scappoose, Oregon, is decorated with Christmas lights every holiday season?
• the Oregon Geographic Names Board was established by Governor George Chamberlain in 1908 to assist the United States Board on Geographic Names in naming geographic features within the state of Oregon?
• the Milton Odem House is one of the best examples of a Streamline Moderne style residence found in the state of Oregon?
• the Mitchell Recreation Area near Bly, Oregon, is the only location in the continental U.S. where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
• the O'Kane Building in Bend, Oregon, was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship?
• the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon's oldest government agencies?
• the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is one of only ten urban National Wildlife Refuges in the United States?
• the Van Buren Street Bridge in Oregon is the last movable-span truss bridge constructed by the pin connection method located on the West Coast?
• the Willamette Collegian, the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon, was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
• the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel in Dufur, Oregon, are 18 inches (460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer months?
• the cliffs of Hart Mountain tower 3,600 feet above the floor of Oregon’s Warner Valley (pictured)?
• the current configuration of Sun Pass State Forest in Oregon was the result of a land swap between the state government and the federal forest service?
• the Statesman Journal is the second oldest newspaper in Oregon?
• the Wilsonville railroad bridge in Oregon does not need to be painted?
• the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines, which are rare within the United States?
• the Whisky Creek Cabin, built about 1880, is the oldest remaining mining cabin along the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon?
• the Willow Creek Transit Center in Oregon has artwork with a reading theme for a planned library branch nearby that was never built?
• after removal of a dam that blocked their migration for nearly a century, salmon and steelhead returned in 2009 to the Little Sandy River in Oregon?
• after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband, Mary Leonard became the first woman in Oregon allowed to practice law?
• Tabitha Brown (pictured) was recognized as one of Oregon's state symbols for her assistance in founding Tualatin Academy?
• commuter rail stop Hall/Nimbus Station in Oregon includes artwork that features movable heads shaped like a pumpkin and a blue-colored skull?
• Alphonso Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone, started a ferry in Oregon that ran from 1847 until 1954?
• Ana River (pictured) in south-central Oregon flows almost its entire 7 mile (11 km) course within the boundaries of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Summer Lake Wildlife Area?
• rockhounds come to the Ochoco Mountains in central Oregon to look for thundereggs (pictured)?
• radio stations KGAL and KSHO are celebrating Oregon's sesquicentennial with a year-long series of historical vignettes?
• Oregon's Warrior Rock Light (pictured) operated uneventfully for 80 years until it was struck by a barge in 1969?
• Oregon's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?
• Oregon-based Electro Scientific Industries worked with Nike, Inc. to get a law passed that effectively prevents the neighboring city of Beaverton from annexing either company's property?
• Portland, Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
• Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is not in the U.S. State of Arizona but rather in Oregon?
• Babette March, the first cover model of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, became a farmer in Canada and is now an artist, entrepreneur and chef in Halfway, Oregon?
• David Thomas Lenox was the captain of the first wagon train on the Oregon Trail to travel all the way to Oregon?
• Director Park in Portland, Oregon, was designed by Laurie Olin, who also designed Bryant Park in New York City?
• Fairview Creek in Oregon was once a tributary of the Columbia River, but was diverted to the Columbia Slough in the early 20th century?
• Felix Hathaway helped construct the first American-built ship in what is now the state of Oregon?
• Cooper Mountain Nature Park in Oregon is located on an extinct volcano?
• Comfort Stations No. 68 (pictured) and No. 72 in the Rim Village Historic District of Oregon, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1988, are public restrooms built in the 1930s?
• Biglow Canyon Wind Farm is the largest planned wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon?
• Brad Avakian, Oregon's recently appointed Labor Commissioner, previously worked as a civil rights attorney, and was honored by two unions during his time in the Oregon Legislative Assembly?
• Caroline Duby Glassman, who was born and raised in Oregon, was the first woman on the Maine Supreme Court?
• Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
• Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
• Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
• Oregon attorney Parish L. Willis was sued for fraud over his investment in the Hot Lake Sanatorium Company, now listed as a historic place?
• Oregon doctor Augustus C. Kinney lived in Astoria, but died in Oakland, California, and was buried in Salem, Oregon?
• Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
• Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
• Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas?
• environmentalists and ranchers worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore riparian areas in the Trout Creek Mountains (pictured) of southeastern Oregon?
• Eugene, Oregon's The Register-Guard is the second largest newspaper in Oregon?
• jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?
• Lake County, Oregon's Warner Lakes and their associated wetlands (pictured) offer numerous recreational opportunities but have relatively few visitors because of their remote location?
• Oregon judge William Gilbert opposed Joseph McKenna's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court after the two had served together on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals?
• Oregon pioneer Joseph Hamilton Lambert developed the Lambert cherry?
• Oregon politician Ralph Carey Geer's grandson, Homer Davenport, was a political cartoonist?
• Oregon radio station KBZY is the flagship station for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League of Professional Baseball?
• Oregon radio station KKRB won New Music Weekly magazine's "Adult Contemporary Radio Station of the Year" New Music Award in 2006, 2007, and 2008?
• Oregon's Boone Bridge (pictured) is named for Daniel Boone's grandson, who operated the first river crossing at that location?
• Oregon politician Medorem Crawford's son was the first white American male born on the west side of the Willamette River?
• Oregon politician Edward Schulmerich's former home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
• Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park?
• Oregon pioneer Robert Crouch Kinney read law under Serranus Clinton Hastings, but never practiced law?
• Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett?
• Fort Harney, a United States Army outpost in eastern Oregon, was officially designated as a fort in 1879 and then abandoned in 1880?
• Francis S. Hoyt, the first President of Willamette University in Oregon, USA, graduated from Wesleyan University, a school his father helped to found?
• Thomas B. Kay was elected as the Oregon State Treasurer four times and served in the office longer than anyone else in Oregon history?
• Thomas Garrigus of Oregon was a silver medalist for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team at the Summer Games in Mexico City?
• United Streetcar of Oregon is currently the only American company building modern streetcars (pictured)?
• Vortex I, which took place in Oregon in 1970, remains the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history?
• Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the caldera cliff 900 feet (270 m) above Crater Lake in Oregon?
• Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional, Territorial, and State governments of Oregon?
• Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon was the first hospital in the United States to earn a Gold LEED certification?
• Rim Drive in Oregon, a scenic highway cited by the American Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in the U.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake (pictured)?
• Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon?
• Salem Hospital has the busiest emergency room in the state of Oregon?
• Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland in Oregon is the oldest building on campus, and older than the school?
• William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress?
• a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon?
• a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, came from private pledges?
• a student at Clatskanie Middle/High School organized a statewide food drive in Oregon that earned the student a national award?
• after U.S. Attorney Charles Turner investigated illegal activities in the 1980s at Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, high-ranking followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh plotted to assassinate him?
• a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon (pictured) as the Great Sandy Desert?
• Zigzag district office was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is one of nineteen historic buildings at the Zigzag Ranger Station in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest?
• Willow Prairie Cabin in Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, built by a Forest Service crew in 1924, is a popular horse camp?
• Robert Lindahl, the recording engineer on The Kingsmen's famous version of "Louie Louie", lost his job as a disc jockey for KBKR because he refused to empty the Oregon station's chemical toilet?
• U.S. politician William Waldo served as a county judge in Oregon after his younger brother served on the Oregon Supreme Court?
• Philip Leget Edwards, the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon, later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California?
• Measure 51 would have repealed Oregon's Death with Dignity Act?
  
• Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland, Oregon with only five dissenting votes?
• Huber's bills itself as the oldest restaurant in Portland, Oregon?
• Humbug Mountain (pictured) is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean?
• John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?
• Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district court?
• Hare Field was the first all-weather high school football field in Oregon?
• George K. Gay's house was the first brick house in Oregon and served as the boundary marker between Yamhill and Polk counties?
• George Whitaker, president of Willamette University in Oregon, banned talking between boys and girls at the school?
• Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in Oregon in 2007?
• John W. Reynolds was admitted to practice law in Oregon before he graduated from law school?
• Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
• Levi L. Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
• Lost Forest in Lake County, Oregon, is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert?
• Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
• Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/s, enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US?
• Lake Abert in Lake County, Oregon, covers 57 square miles (150 km²) and is teeming with brine shrimp, but has no fish?
• L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?
• KCKX, known as "Ondas de Gozo", is the first Spanish-language Christian radio station in the state of Oregon?
• KHSN, one of Oregon's first radio stations, began broadcasting in 1928?
• Ki-a-Kuts Falls in Oregon were named after the last chief of the Atfalati band of Native Americans?
• Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?