28th Aug 2020
August 28th – Today in Oregon History

August 28th – Today in Oregon History

August 28th – Today in Oregon History 1970 – The first day of the week long Vortex I Music festival started. Planned by Governor McCall as a way to keep...

25th Jul 2020
July 25 – Today in Oregon History

July 25 – Today in Oregon History

July 25 – Today in Oregon History 1850 – Gold is discovered in Oregon for the first time, sparking a gold rush to the Rogue River.

01st Jun 2020
June 1st – Today in Oregon History

June 1st – Today in Oregon History

June 1st – Today in Oregon History 1905 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland. It is so successful that Portland’s population doubles in the next decade...

28th Jan 2020
January 28th – Today in Oregon History

January 28th – Today in Oregon History

January 28th – Today in Oregon History 1965 – After heavy rainfall through December (1964) and early January (1965) across the entire West Coast, a landslide hits Mapleton Oregon’s “downtown”....

16th Jan 2020
Today in Oregon History

Today in Oregon History

Today in Oregon History Today in Oregon history is an attempt to highlight the important events that happened in Oregon History. Mostly this is a vanity project for myself to...

09th Jan 2020
January 9th – Today in Oregon History

January 9th – Today in Oregon History

January 9th – Today in Oregon History 1880 – The Great Gale devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with heavy snow and high speed winds.

09th Nov 2019
Bridal Veil Cemetery Marker

Bridal Veil Cemetery

Bridal Veil Cemetery This cemetery served the nearby town of Bridal Veil, effectively now a ghost town itself. The cemetery is located between where the mill was and the actual...

07th Nov 2019
Wildcat Covered Bridge, Lane County, Oregon

Wildcat Covered Bridge (Wild Cat Covered Bridge)- Lane County, Oregon

Wildcat Covered Bridge I thought I had visited every covered bridge in Oregon. Until a chance glance over the side of the road while driving Highway 126 attracted my eye...

02nd Sep 2019

Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography

This is the second of two versions of Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography. This one was updated and published in 1954 by the Skamania Historical Society. Read the first version here...

02nd Sep 2019
Felix G Iman (about 1900)

Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington

Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington Traveling through Skamania County Recently, and stopping at the excellent Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, revealed a number of interesting local history connections. One of...

02nd Sep 2019
Iman Cemetery Entrance

Iman Cemetery

Iman Cemetery The Iman Cemetery is in Stevenson Washington. It was established near the North East Corner of the Iman Donation Land Claim in 1901 as the family plot of...

27th Jun 2017
USS LST-263 under way, October 19 1943, location unknown - Photo by David Kerr, US National Archives photo # 80-G-411655

USS Benton County (LST-263) (1943-1958)

USS Benton County (LST-263) was one of several Landing ships built during WWII, named after locations in the Pacific Northwest. Like the rest of the LST, it wasn’t directly named...

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