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American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory

American Society for Encouraging the Settlement of the Oregon Territory

The mythology that (mis)characterizes the American settlement of the West as an epic tale of virtuous triumph over a dangerous and exhilarating wilderness was fueled …

Oregon History Project
An Accurate Map of North America, c. 1780

An Accurate Map of North America, c. 1780

Thomas Bowen, a British cartographer and engraver, produced his An Accurate Map of North America from the Latest Authorities in the early 1780s.  It is an …

Oregon History Project
An Oregon Rancher Ordered to Leave

An Oregon Rancher Ordered to Leave

This article appeared in the August 18, 1887, edition of the Boise Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman. The bulk of the article consists of a letter …

Oregon History Project
Anna Maria Pittman Lee (1803-1838)

Anna Maria Pittman Lee (1803-1838)

Anna Maria Pittman Lee was a teacher, Methodist missionary, and accomplished poet who traveled to Oregon Country in 1837 to live and work at the …

Oregon History Project
Antone Minthorn Oral History

Antone Minthorn Oral History

Antone Minthorn (Cayuse) has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation since 1997 until now …

Oregon History Project
Article, I-5 Now Completed throughout Oregon

Article, I-5 Now Completed throughout Oregon

The interstate highway system changed the face of America. Although Congress had been discussing the development of an interregional highway system since the 1930s, construction …

Oregon History Project
Article, Willamette Greenway Act

Article, Willamette Greenway Act

Anthony Netboy wrote this Nov. 5, 1967 article about the Willamette Greenway Act for Northwest Magazine Sunday, a supplement to the Oregonian. Netboy, …

Oregon History Project
Ashland Chautauqua, 1895

Ashland Chautauqua, 1895

This 1895 leaflet from Ashland’s third annual Chautauqua meeting shows the town’s Chautauqua building on one side and lists the featured speakers on the other. …

Oregon History Project
Ashland Woolen Mills

Ashland Woolen Mills

This 1884 illustration shows the Ashland Woolen Mills. The first such enterprise in Oregon was the Willamette Woolen Manufacturing Company, which began doing business in …

Oregon History Project
Ashwood, 1915

Ashwood, 1915

This is a photograph of the central Oregon town of Ashwood at the turn of the twentieth century, before a mining boom spurred an increase …

Oregon History Project

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.