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Beall Black Walnut

Posted on: December 31st, 2024 in Heritage Tree Details |

Juglans nigra

In 1863, on this site, Robert Vinton Beall, an Oregon Trail pioneer and relative to four Maryland governors, built one of the first frame buildings in Jackson County, a Gothic Revival house that is listed on the National Historic Register. Beall and his brother Thomas were eventually to become Jackson County’s most prosperous farmers. In 1864, Robert Beall planted this Illinois black walnut to commemorate his marriage to Ann …

Courthouse Square Giant Sequoias

Posted on: December 12th, 2024 in Heritage Tree Details |

Sequoiadendron giganteum

These trees were planted by homesteader John R. Porter (1827-1886) in 1880. The 3-year-old seedlings were brought from California and planted to enhance the entrance to the 1873 courthouse.

Tree Facts

Approx. height: 150ft

Age at dedication: 120 years

Date of dedication: April 11, 1997

Learn More: Visit Oregon Encyclopedia

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Location: Washington County Courthouse, 1st Ave & Main Street, Hillsboro

Britt Sequoia

Posted on: December 12th, 2024 in Heritage Tree Details |

Sequoia giganteum

On March 22, 1862, the day of his son Emil’s birth, Peter Britt planted this giant sequoia by his home. Britt was a pioneer photographer, skilled horticulturalist, and leader in Southern Oregon’s lucrative fruit industry. From its vantage point, this majestic tree has witnessed the unfolding of Jacksonville’s rich history — the gold rush prosperity of the mid 1800s, the decline at the turn of the century and the …

TIC Announces New Director

Posted on: December 2nd, 2024 in News & Press |

TIC is pleased to announce that McGregor “Mac” Lynde will serve as the agency’s next Executive Director, beginning on Monday, November 18, 2024. The council agreed by unanimous vote to offer Lynde the appointment at its public meeting on Wednesday, October 23. Currently serving as Special Advisor to the Director of the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Lynde brings to the Travel Information Council twenty-two years of experience with the …

The Coos People

Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |

Life Comes from the Land and Water Here stood the Hanis Coos village of Qaimisiich. Hanis Coos, and their Miluk Coos neighbors to the south, lived along Coos Bay, south to the Coquille River, and east to the Coast Range. Experts in a sustainable life, the Coos people hunted, fished, and gathered here for many centuries. They traded with other tribes to obtain goods they could not find locally, such …

Upper Klamath Lake

Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |

Ews (Upper Klamath Lake) is Oregon’s largest body of water. ?ewksiknii c’oy modokni (Klamath and Modoc) peoples have lived here for thousands of years. During the creation of giwas (Crater Lake) their ancestors sought refuge in Ews while the world around them burned. From that time on, populations of native peoples grew and built villages around Ews. They lived off the bounty of the water. In 1825, Hudson Bay Company …

Yaquina Bay

Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

For millennia, the rich plant and animal life around Yaquina Bay sustained Yaqona tribal people. In 1855, President Pierce set aside these homelands among 1.1 million acres along the coast as a reservation for western Oregon tribes. By the 1860s, the abundant native oyster beds caught the attention of San Francisco-based oyster firms and illegal encroachment by settlers increased. The town of Oysterville was established in 1863 and a wagon …

Williamson River

Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |

A Pacific Railroad Survey party searching for a practicable route for a railroad to connect the Sacramento Valley with the Columbia River passed near this point bound north on August 20, 1855. Lieutenant R.S. Williamson headed the party with 2nd Lieutenant Henry I. Abbot second in command. Among the officers in the Army escort were Lieutenant Phil S. Sheridan and Lieutenant George Crook. Dr. J.S. Newberry was the Chief Scientist …

Willamette Stone

Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

This short trail leads to the Willamette Stone, the surveyor’s monument that is the point of origin for all public land surveys in Oregon and Washington. The landmark was established on June 4, 1851 by John B. Preston, Oregon’s first Surveyor General.

With increasing settlement and passage of the Donation Land Claim Act, the Oregon Territory desperately needed to extend the Public Land Survey System of 1785 that divided public lands …

Willamette Falls Locks

Posted on: November 8th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

WILLAMETTE FALLS LOCKS still in use below this point-were opened on New Years Day, 1873, when the steamer Maria Wilkins became the first vessel to navigate up the west end of Willamette Falls. Farming and shipping interests had long sought to eliminate expensive portages around this age-old bar to navigation 26 miles above the mouth of the river. The initial project was completed by the Willamette Falls Canal and Locks …