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Kam Wah Chung
The Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum, also known as Kam Wah Chung Company Building, is a state park and a National Historic Landmark that preserves early Chinese culture in John Day in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in the 1865 by George Hazeltine as a supply depot or stagecoach stop along the Dalles-Canyon City wagon road., it is the best-preserved example of a Chinese herbal apothecary and mercantile establishment dating to the post-Civil War period of growth in the Western United States. History The Kam Wah Chung () Company Building was built along a wagon road later known as The Dalles Military Road, possibly as a trading post serving placer mining operations on Canyon Creek. By 1878, it was under lease to the Kam Wah Chung Company, which was purchased in 1887 by the partnership of Ing Hay (known also as "Doc Hay") () and Lung On (), Chinese immigrants from Canton. The building remained abandoned after Ing Hay died in 1952. He asked that the building be deeded to the cit ...
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List Of Oregon State Parks
__NOTOC__ This is a list of state parks and other facilities managed by the State Parks and Recreation Department (Oregon), State Parks and Recreation Department of Oregon. The variety of locales and amenities of the parks reflect the diverse geography of Oregon, including beaches, forests, lakes, rock pinnacles, and deserts. The state parks offer many outdoor recreation opportunities, such as overnight camping facilities, day hiking, fishing, boating, historic sites, astronomy, and scenic rest stops and viewpoints. Oregon State Parks celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2022 with events throughout the year. Regions The Parks and Recreation Department classifies its parks according to these regions: * North Oregon Coast, Coast – From the Columbia River to just south of Lincoln City * Central Coast – From Lincoln City to Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area * South Coast – From the Dunes NRA to California * Willamette Valley – From the south edge of the Portland metro ...
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Grant County, Oregon
Grant County is one of the List of counties in Oregon, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 7,233, making it Oregon's fourth-least populous county. The county seat is Canyon City, Oregon, Canyon City. It Oregon Geographic Names, is named for President Ulysses S. Grant, who served as an army officer in the Oregon Territory, and at the time of the county's creation was a Union (American Civil War), Union general in the American Civil War. Grant County is included in the eight-county definition of Eastern Oregon. History Grant County was established on October 14, 1864, from parts of old Wasco County, Oregon, Wasco and old Umatilla County, Oregon, Umatilla counties. Prior to its creation, cases brought to court were tried in The Dalles, Oregon, The Dalles, county seat of the vast Wasco County. The great distance to The Dalles made law enforcement a difficult problem, and imposed a heavy burden on citizens wh ...
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Baker City Herald
The ''Baker City Herald'' is a tri-weekly paper published in Baker City, Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ..., United States, since 1870. It is published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and is owned by EO Media Group. History The ''Herald'' was established as the ''Bedrock-Democrat'' on May 11, 1870. Its founders were Milton H. Abbott, who had previously launched the '' Oregon Herald'', and Lewis Linn McArthur. In 1887, Ira Bowen and George Small purchased the newspaper for $2,500. Bowen and Small published the ''Daily Democrat'' and ran the ''Bedrock Democrat'' as a weekly edition. Their partnership ended in 1919. In 1929, the ''Bedrock-Democrat'' was purchased by Lucien P. Arant and Bernard Mainwaring. The new owners merged it with the city's other dai ...
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Ethnic Museums In Oregon
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history or social treatment. Ethnicities may also have a narrow or broad spectrum of genetic ancestry, with some groups having mixed genetic ancestry. ''Ethnicity'' is sometimes used interchangeably with ''nation'', particularly in cases of ethnic nationalism. It is also used interchangeably with '' race'' although not all ethnicities identify as racial groups. By way of assimilation, acculturation, amalgamation, language shift, intermarriage, adoption and religious conversion, individuals or groups may over time shift from one ethnic group to another. Ethnic groups may be divided into subgroups or tribes, which over time may become separate ethnic groups themselves due to endogamy or physical isolation from the parent group. Co ...
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State Parks Of Oregon
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Museums In Grant County, Oregon
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Chinese-American Culture In Oregon
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