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  • Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    make countless trips to Corvallis. These people are Sylvia Whitney, Ken Edwards, and Elizabeth Juker

  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
    Abstract:
    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    make countless trips to Corvallis. These people are Sylvia Whitney, Ken Edwards, and Elizabeth Juker

  • An evaluation of the archaeological potential of Riverfront Park in Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Littlefield, Steven W.
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    The archaeological resources contained in Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park (RCP) have a great potential to add to the historical record of the warehouse district of the original town of Marysville (Corvallis). The City of Corvallis' proposed Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project and proposed changes to Riverfront Commemorative Park threaten to...
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    . A sincere appreciation to Elizabeth Nielsen of the OSU archives and the many archivists that have

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

    Creator:
    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    reinforcement of missionary personnel, requested by Lee, arrived at the mission in May 1837. Anna Maria

  • Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

    Creator:
    Chapman, Judith Sanders
    Abstract:
    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    reinforcement of missionary personnel, requested by Lee, arrived at the mission in May 1837. Anna Maria

  • Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

    Creator:
    Gregory, Ronald L.
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    Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
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    : Cultural Resource Inventory Report #140 by Elizabeth Sinclaire and Steve Matz (1991). This report includes

  • The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

    Creator:
    Stone, Helen Delight
    Abstract:
    Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
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    Mr. Andrew Smith, of Yam Hill county, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of General Palmer

  • A study of acculturation : ORMU57, Portland's Old Chinatown, ca. 1870-1920

    Creator:
    Wernz, Maralee
    Abstract:
    This archaeological based research uses ceramics in the study of acculturation from a site excavated by an urban archaeology contract firm, and utilizes the theories of consumer choice, ethnicity and acculturation. Artifact analysis took place in the form of minimum vessel counts, artifact relative frequencies, and Chinese artifact values, as...
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    Elizabeth; J.W. Coleyer (engineer), wife M.E. (dress- maker), wife's son 1880-1884 no information 1884 Sung

  • Recognizing individual potters in historic Oregon sites : a visual and chemical analysis of early Oregon redware

    Creator:
    Peterson, Ella M.
    Abstract:
    This paper discusses research concerning redware vessel sherds found in an archaeological excavation at Oregon's historic Champoeg State Park, and comparative artifacts from four known Oregon and Washington late nineteenth pottery production sites. Visual and Instrumental Nuclear Activation Analysis comparison studies were conducted on samples from each site. The New...
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