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Seaside House
This photograph, which dates to approximately 1875, features guests arriving at or departing from Seaside House in Seaside, Oregon. Transportation tycoon Benjamin Holladay constructed the …
Settlers to Siletz Reservation Agent Fairchild
This letter is indicative of the hostility that some early settlers had for Native people. A band of Athapaskan Indians, known as the Kwatami, lived …![Sketch of the Wallamette [sic] Valley, 1851](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Sketch-Map-Willamette-Valley-1851-FSDM2.jpg)
Sketch of the Wallamette [sic] Valley, 1851
Oregon became a United States territory in 1848, and the rapid growth of Euro American settlement in the Willamette Valley increased tension between the immigrants …
Snake River Massacre Account by One of the Survivors
This article was published in the Oregon Argus on November 24, 1860. It recounts the experiences of Joseph Myers, one of the survivors of the …
Southern Oregon & Northern California
The 1848 discovery of gold in California was a lure for many Euro Americans, including up to two-thirds of the men who had recently crossed …
Steamboat Oneonta, Columbia River
The Oneonta, a side-wheeler steamboat built in 1863 by Samuel Forman, gave the Oregon Steam Navigation Company a transportation link on the “middle” part …
Stumptown
In this 1857 picture, tree stumps are apparent just at the edge of town. In 1847, a visitor to Portland remarked that the trees had …
Subscriptions to US Sanitary Commission
This document lists the names of Jacksonville, Oregon residents who pledged donations to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at a town meeting on September 20, 1862. The …
Suffrage Committee Report
Delazon Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Suffrage and Election, presented this handwritten report to the Oregon Constitutional Convention in Salem on August 25, 1857. …
Surveyed Portions of the Oregon Territory, 1852
The map above shows the surveyed portion of the Oregon Territory as of October 21, 1852. It was prepared by John B. Preston, first surveyor …Interpretive Essays
Interpretive essays use primary documents from the Oregon Historical Society archives to help readers imagine the events, people, and issues that shaped Oregon history.
