Posted on: February 17th, 2023 in News & Press |
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Posted on: August 11th, 2015 in News & Press |
On August 6, 2015, a new Oregon historical marker was dedicated by the community of Pendleton and Oregon Travel Experience. The marker’s installation and historic text revision was sponsored by the 2015 Leadership Pendleton Class. A brief ceremony took place in front of the new marker on the eastern end of Pendleton, along Highway 30.
OTE’s Annie von Domitz and Oregon Historical Marker Committee member George Forbes attended the dedication and …
Posted on: April 24th, 2024 in News & Press |
Our heritage programs had another eventful year! We celebrated our long-time Historical Marker volunteers, inducted two new Heritage Trees, recognized four Heritage Tree heroes, and implemented a maintenance plan at Grove of the States.
We couldn’t do this without our dedicated volunteers. Many thanks to the Oregon Historical Marker Committee, the Oregon Heritage Tree Committee, and the Salemtowne Historical Marker Maintenance Crew. All names are credited on page 4. (Contact …
Posted on: March 29th, 2024 in Heritage Tree Details |
Tillia americana / Wisteria floribunda
This wisteria vine and its companion linden tree, whose “partnership” is a local landmark, were planted in approximately 1881 by Brownsville entrepreneurs John and Elizabeth Moyer. With its distinctive braided trunk, the wisteria relies on the linden tree for support and to vividly display its profuse spring blossoms. It is the success of this long-standing partnership that makes them a unique addition to the Oregon Heritage …
Posted on: March 29th, 2024 in Heritage Tree Details |
Grand fir: Abies grandis
The Northrup Creek Horse Camp Big Tree Trail was created in 2012 when the Oregon Department of Forestry identified numerous large conifer and deciduous trees in close proximity to Northrup Creek. The species include grand fir, western redcedar, Sitka spruce, bigleaf maple, red alder, and bitter cherry. It is believed that many of these are among the top five largest in the state, with possible state champions …
Posted on: April 24th, 2023 in Heritage Tree Details |
Picea sitchensis
The West Yaquina Sitka spruce stands at the end of Water Street in the former township of West Yaquina. Colonel T. Egenton Hogg, a San Francisco entrepreneur, had a vision to build tracks from Corvallis to the coast, making a transcontinental railroad. In 1882, Yaquina City was founded as the terminus for Hogg’s railroad. In 1884, West Yaquina was incorporated on the peninsula directly across the bay from Yaquina …
Posted on: August 22nd, 2022 in Heritage Tree Details |
Sequoia sempervirens— Commonly known as the “The Giant Tree in Straight-a-Way”
In 1870, Israel Fisk Eddy purchased land that is now Eddyville and built a sawmill and gristmill, using a small dam on the Yaquina River to supply the power. He is known as the founder of Eddyville and is also known for his fondness of trees. According to a local publication, “Eddy had a fine orchard in Eddyville. One man …
Posted on: July 21st, 2022 in Historical Marker Details |
Reuben Shipley was born a slave in Kentucky and emigrated to the Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail in 1853 with his enslaver, Robert Shipley. In return for accompanying the family to Oregon, Reuben was given his freedom and worked for Eldridge Hartless on a farm south of Corvallis. He saved $1,500 with which he purchased 101 acres of the Charles Bales’ Donation Land Claim.
Mary Jane Holmes was born in …
Posted on: July 21st, 2022 in Historical Marker Details |
Coal was first discovered in Coos County in 1853, and several mines opened before R. A. Graham and J. D. Spreckles and Brother Co. of San Francisco decided to run a spur of their railroad, the Coos Bay, Roseburg and Eastern, to a hill near Beaver Slough. The railroad reached Beaver Hill on August 22, 1894, and construction of houses and a store quickly got underway. The company town prospered …
Posted on: May 4th, 2022 in Heritage Tree Details |
Tree Info:
Age: 157
Height: approx. 120′
Circumference: 14′ 8″
Average Crown Spread: approx. 140′
The walnut tree at the entrance to the historic George W. Smith Farm on S. Coos River Road in Coos Bay, Oregon, was originally planted by William D.L.F. Smith in 1865. Smith included the walnut in a grouping of four trees along with Chinese Chestnuts when the farmhouse was built. This tree has been an important community landmark for generations. …
Posted on: May 4th, 2022 in Heritage Tree Details |
Fagus sylvatica
When you walk down the campus of Portland State University (PSU), it’s hard not to notice the lone beech tree surrounded by the sides of the Millar Library. This tree has witnessed a lot of life in its 100+ year life span. The PSU Copper Beech was planted in the early 1890s at the home of industrialist and banker, Joseph Franklin Watson. Mr. Watson’s ties to industry and finance …
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