#Oregon history

[baronetcoins]

happy exploding whale day to all who celebrate!

[360nw]

Jantzen Beach Carousel - March 28th 2012

The next month after photographing at this location, on April 22, the carousel was closed with the promise of a remodel. Unfortunately the carousel has been in storage since. It even disappeared from public view for a time until it was donated to Restore Oregon in 2017.

Portions of the carousel are on display through April 2022 at the Oregon Historical Society in an exhibit called The Odyssey of the Historic Jantzen Beach Carousel: From Leavenworth, Kansas, to Portland, Oregon, 1921–2022

An extensive and well done history including photographs can be found at; Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" "Jantzen Beach Carousel, Portland, Oregon".

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High Desert Community at Summer Lake

[blarson77]

My heart is a different place today. On this day, May 21, 1998, tragedy struck my beloved High School of Thurston in my beautiful hometown of Springfield, Oregon. My heart is always with y’all in “T-Town”!!!

[tamirichards]

U.S. - OREGON'S Opal Whiteley; Precocious child, nature lover, famed and fizzled media darling.

In 1948, 51-year-old Opal Whiteley was found in a dead-end London street half starved. In her tiny basement apartment, authorities found crate after crate of books stacked upon themselves and covering every possible nook and cranny of space. It is estimat

Opal Whiteley Controversy, tales, and an investigative biography In 1948, 51-year-old Opal Whiteley was found in a dead-end London street half starved. In her tiny basement apartment, authorities found crate after crate of books stacked upon themselves and covering every possible nook and cranny of space. It is estimated that the collection contained a total of ten to fifteen thousand books.…

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The Portland Winterhawks of the WHL don Rosebuds throwback jerseys for Oregon Hockey History Night on March 9, 2024. The jerseys recall two different Portland professional hockey teams named the Rosebuds -- the first of which, active in the 1910s, was the first American team to compete for the Stanley Cup. x / x / x

[historyisdeadorisit]

I found this in the Oregonian Times 1911

[etakeh]

I was looking through some 2020 stuff and found a pamphlet published by Vanport Mosaic, and was like, Who's this? So I looked them up, and got a whole-ass education about the city I was born and have spent most of my life in.

I'm sure this is a sanitized version of events, but even sanitized it's kind of. wow.

[vintagecamping]

Tree identification booklet for hikers and campers. Oregon 1957

[richieshitlips]

was it casual when you saved me and my family from drowning in the great columbia river?

[whitesinhistory]

On June 26, 1844, the legislative committee of the territory then known as “Oregon Country” passed the first of a series of “Black exclusion” laws. The law dictated that free African Americans were prohibited from moving into Oregon Country and those who violated the ban could be whipped “not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine stripes."

That December, the law was amended to substitute forced labor for whipping. It specified that African Americans who stayed within Oregon would be hired at public auction and that the “hirer” would be responsible for removing the “hiree” out of the territory after the prescribed period of forced service was rendered. This law was enforced even though slavery and involuntary servitude were illegal in Oregon Country.

The preamble to a later exclusion law, passed in 1849, explained legislators’ beliefs that “it would be highly dangerous to allow free Negroes and mulattoes to reside in the Territory, or to intermix with Indians, instilling ... feelings of hostility toward the white race.”

The Oregon Constitution of 1857 included racial exclusion provisions against African Americans and Asian Americans. The document declared that African Americans outside of Oregon were not permitted to “come, reside, or be within” the state; prohibited African Americans from owning property or performing contracts; and prescribed punishment for those who employed, “harbor[ed],” or otherwise helped African Americans.

Between 1840 and 1860, in the midst of this exclusion and discrimination, African Americans never constituted more than 1% of the population in the American Pacific Northwest. Oregon, which joined the Union as a "free state" on February 14, 1859, stands as a clear illustration that racial discrimination and oppression against Black people was also widespread in jurisdictions where slavery was illegal. The 2020 U.S. Census reported that only 3.2% of Oregon residents were Black.

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World's Oldest Leather Shoe, from Armenia, c.3500 BCE: this prehistoric shoe dates back to about 5,500 years ago, making it the oldest leather shoe in the world

The shoe was found within a cave in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia, where it had been preserved beneath a layer of sheep dung for more than five millennia.

From the BBC:

At 5,500 years old, the well preserved cow-hide shoe pre-dates Stonehenge by 400 years and the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 years.

It was made of a single piece of leather and was shaped to fit the wearer's foot, researchers say.

The shoe contained grass, although the archaeologists are uncertain as to whether this was to keep the foot warm or to maintain the shape of the footwear.

Archaeologists put the shoe's remarkable preservation down to the stable, cool and dry conditions in the cave, and the fact that the floor of the cave was covered by a thick layer of sheep dung. This layer of excrement acted as a solid seal, preserving it over the millennia.

According to researchers, the shoe was deliberately buried in a clay-lined pit located within the cave system, though it's unclear why it was originally buried there. The evidence suggests that the shoe was more than just a ritual object -- an imprint of the wearer's big toe is still visible in the leather, and there is a significant amount of wear along the heel and ball of the foot.

This is the oldest leather shoe that has ever been discovered, but older shoes made of plant fiber have been found at sites in Missouri and Oregon. The oldest shoes ever discovered come from Oregon's Fort Rock Cave, where archaeologists unearthed dozens of sandals dating back to about 10,000 years ago.

Sandals from Fort Rock Cave, Oregon

Sources & More Info:

National Geographic: World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found--Stunningly Preserved

BBC: 'Oldest Leather Shoe' Discovered

The Bulletin: Viral Story about World's Oldest Shoes Failed to Mention Ancient Fort Rock Footwear

Oregon Encyclopedia: Fort Rock Sandals

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(source: The Coos Bay Times, December 8, 1926.)

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Pioneer Child and Ranchers’ Wife

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Pioneer Cemetery, Astoria, Oregon, September 1, 2024

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The Hoover-Minthorn House

“Oregon lives in my mind for its gleaming wheat fields, its abundant fruit, its luxuriant forest vegetation, and the fish in its mountain streams. To step into its forests with their tangles of berry bushes, their ferns, their masses of wild-flowers stir

Of the 46 presidents who have steered the helm of the United States, only one has ever hailed from the Pacific Northwest. The 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10th, 1874 into modest beginnings; not so much because his family was poor, but because their beliefs honored humility. Herbert’s father, Jesse Hoover, was a blacksmith turned…