Abstract Document regarding the sale from Amelia Cowaniah and Charles Cowaniah to Thomas Stephens and James Terwilliger of four-fifths of title for 640 acres in Multnomah County, Oregon. Amelia Cowaniah (later Amelia Clemens) was the daughter of William Johnson, whose land at what would become Portland, Oregon, was claimed by Elizabeth Caruthers Thomas and her son Finice Caruthers after Johnson's death. Amelia Cowaniah unsuccessfully sued to be regarded as the rightful title holder to the land...

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The collection contains records on individual sections within the townsite of Crane, located in Harney County, Oregon. Each record provides a colored map with details of topography, and some include notes on land features, soil quality, and uses for which the land is suitable. Collection also includes a ledger book, mostly blank, with names of purchasers.

Abstract Ledger containing records of the Des Chutes Rim Rock Power Company of Oregon, including articles of incorporation, meeting minutes, bylaws, a proposal, and directors' oaths. The Des Chutes Rim Rock Power Company, also referred to in newspapers as Deschutes Rimrock Power Company or Deschutes Rim Rock Power Company, was founded in 1911, and acquired $9 million from English investors to build power plants to irrigate land east of the Deschutes River and south of the Columbia River. The company...

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Lorraine Fletcher was a teacher from 1926-1971, primarily in Portland, Oregon, where she worked from 1936-1971. Papers consist of teaching records, 1926-1976, including contracts, evaluations, and transfer records; and documentation of Fletcher's battle with the City of Portland over proposed zoning changes on her Southwest Portland property.

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Reminiscences of landscape architect and planner Jurgen A. Hess (born 1941) about implementation of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, as well as materials relating to opposition to the act, including a document by Lex Loeb. Hess worked for the U.S. Forest Service for more than 30 years, and was the service's planning director for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.

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Papers of Mike Houck, an environmentalist from Portland, Oregon. The collection includes records and documents relating to the management and conservation of urban greenspaces in the Portland area, speeches and publications by Houck, materials relating to the adoption of the great blue heron as Portland's city bird, and materials relating to a symposium, "Olmsted Landscape Legacy 1903-2003."

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Collection includes correspondence, minutes and other records, 1951-1958, regarding land and water use in the Klamath River Basin. The Klamath River Compact Commission was created by the 1957 Klamath River Compact as a cooperative relationship between the states of Oregon and California and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

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Papers of Antti Kopra (1890-1968), primarily relating to his attempts to purchase property in Portland, Oregon, during World War II. Kopra was a Finnish American who spent the majority of his adult life in Butte, Montana, but briefly lived in Portland during World War II.

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Report with appendices, discussing the feasibility and desirability of preserving areas of the Columbia River Gorge for recreational purposes. The report was produced by the Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission's Columbia Gorge Committee, chaired by John Yeon (1910-1994). The committee would release another report about conservation of the Gorge, "Columbia River Gorge Conservation and Development," in 1937.

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Papers relating to the land claim of Daniel Lownsdale (1803-1862) in Portland, Oregon, including indentures, agreements, court documents, and correspondence. Lownsdale came to Oregon in 1845, established a tannery in what would become Portland, and in 1849 purchased additional land from Francis Pettygrove, some of which would later become the South Park Blocks and the North Park Blocks.