Land Use
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of an Oregon timber cruiser or land speculator
Pocket notebook with handwritten entries relating to land and goods. Includes entries and lists with names and property descriptions; accounts; and lists of goods, with prices. Entries may have been made by more than one person.
Oregon Valley Land Company promotional materials
Oregon Wild records
A. R. Panissidi papers
Collection consists of speeches and manuscripts for publication, circa 1974-1976, regarding railroads in Oregon, tidelands, and legislation regarding public lands used for railroads.
Peninsula Security Company records
Abstracts of title for lands in Multnomah, Coos, Clackamas, and Linn counties in Oregon and in Cowlitz, Clark, Snohomish, and Pacific counties in Washington.
Property record of downtown Portland, Oregon
Handwritten and hand-drawn ledger describing properties in downtown Portland, Oregon, including owners, usage, building description, assessed value, and the amount of property tax for the 1962-1963 fiscal year. The ledger was probably produced by the firm Linden B. Bowman, Realtor, a commercial and industrial real estate business owned by Linden B. Bowman (1914-2004), later known as the Bowman Company.
Levi Scott papers
Correspondence and land papers of Levi Scott (1797-1890), and a letter by his son, John M. Scott (1827-1905). Levi Scott emigrated to Oregon in 1844, where he helped establish the Applegate Trail and served as a member of the Oregon territorial legislature and the Oregon constitutional convention.
Robert Valentine Short papers
Robert Valentine Short (1823-1908) was a pioneer of 1847. He was a member of the 1851 Constitutional Convention and in 1888 was elected to the Oregon Legislature from Clackamas County. He also studied surveying and was responsible for surveying the town of Portland in 1850. Collection includes diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, survey and field notes; and papers relating to donation land claims and property in Yamhill, Clackamas, and Multnomah counties.
Land certificate for Joseph Simon
Certificate made out to Joseph Simon (1851-1935) for 160 acres of land in Washington County, Oregon, and a receipt that said certificate was received by the recorder of conveyances of Washington County. Joseph Simon was an Oregon attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from 1898 to 1903.
Westover Terrace (Portland, Or.) photographic collection
Twenty-eight black and white photographs of the construction of the Westover Terrace area of Portland, Oregon, by Lewis-Wiley Co.