The Crown Point Country Museum opened its doors this March to a rural community of only a few thousand. The log cabin-inspired building is 3,500 square feet, tucked away not far from the Portland Women’s Forums and the Crown Point Vista House.
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Bigfoot is officially helping Oregon celebrate the country’s 250th birthday. This September, the Dallas Area Visitors Center will host its second annual Bigfootstock, a one-day festival rooted in local folklore and the town’s rural identity that brings together educators, agritourism businesses and tribal partners. “Through storytelling, cultural exchange, and educational experiences and of course music, […]
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The Oregon Historical Society is hosting an event on Thursday evening highlighting one of the state’s earliest and most prominent health and equity advocates. The event, “It Started Here in The Dalles: The Passionate, Notorious Story of Dr. Marie Equi,” will feature historian and human rights activist Michael Helquist telling the story of Dr. Marie […]
The Oregon Historical Society (OHS) and the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation (ORHF) announced Sept. 2 the permanent transfer of the Mount Emily…
Warm Springs artist Lillian Pitt is among the 2020 recipients of the Oregon History Makers Medal from Oregon Historical Society (OHS).
Hood River photographer Peter Marbach has created a limited edition, collectible 2018 Oregon calendar featuring the 2017 total eclipse.
Hood River photographer Peter Marbach will share stories and imagery from his current project documenting the landscapes and culture of the entire 1,250-mile Columbia River, from its humble beginnings in Canal Flats, British Columbia, to the two-mile-wide confluence with the Pacific.
The Columbia River flows for over 1,200 miles, born free in the cradle of the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. From its humble beginnings from a tiny spring you can straddle, to a two mile wide confluence with the Pacific Ocean, the river flowed for thousands of years in a natural state of astounding beauty. It was also the place of a miraculous ancient migration of Pacific salmon that came all the way home to the headwaters in Canada.
The Declaration of Independence. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Monroe Doctrine. These bedrock documents laid the foundational "blueprints" of American democracy — and, some of the earliest printings and engravings of these iconic pieces will be on view at the Oregon Historical Society (1200 SW Park Ave., Portland) from July 29 through Feb. 1, 2017, in the original exhibition “Democracy's Blueprints: The Documents that Built America.”
A 16mm print of the film “Pages of Death” was recently discovered in the collection of the Portland-based Oregon Historical Society (OHS). Before this discovery, the film had been included on a list of lost films, defined as films in which no copy is known to survive.
