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Land Use

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Valentine Short papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2639
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1852-1906

Land certificate for Joseph Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Coll868
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1889-1891

Westover Terrace (Portland, Or.) photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 669
Abstract

Twenty-eight black and white photographs of the construction of the Westover Terrace area of Portland, Oregon, by Lewis-Wiley Co.

Dates: 1910-1912