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The LDS Church is the second-largest religious denomination [17] in Oregon and many influential Latter-day Saints have lived in or came from Oregon, including former U.S. Senator Gordon H. Smith, basketball player and executive Danny Ainge, and former Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson.
Lebanon (/ ˈ l ɛ b ə n ə n / LEB-ən-ən) is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States.Lebanon is located in northwest Oregon, southeast of Salem.The population was 19,690 at the 2020 census.
City of Portland; Use: Civil and state flag: Proportion: 3:5: Adopted: September 4, 2002; 22 years ago (): Design: Nordic-style Brigid's cross design with Blue stripes/arms double-fimbriated by gold on white esquarres, in the center a white astroid hypocycloid, on a green background.
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List of mayors of Portland may refer to: List of mayors of Portland, Maine; List of mayors of Portland, Oregon This page was last edited on 4 ...
Portland has 12 bridges that span the Willamette, while only two road bridges cross the Columbia River, and other notable bridges cross roads, canyons or other bodies of water. Interstate 5 crosses the Willamette via the Marquam Bridge and the Columbia via the Interstate Bridge .
A group of Klansmen gathered in their robes and hoods. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) arrived in the U.S. state of Oregon in the early 1920s, during the history of the second Klan, and it quickly spread throughout the state, aided by a mostly white, Protestant population as well as by racist and anti-immigrant sentiments which were already embedded in the region. [1]
The Steel Bridge is a through truss, double-deck vertical-lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States, opened in 1912. Its lower deck carries railroad and bicycle/pedestrian traffic, while the upper deck carries road traffic (on the Pacific Highway West No. 1W , former Oregon Route 99W ), and light rail (MAX ...