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

Creator:: Littlefield, Steven W.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Park in Corvallis, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Steven W. Littlefield for the degree of

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

Creator:: Poet, Rebecca McClelland
Abstract:: In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Hand-Decorated Earthenware Sponge Ware 70 74 Spatter Ware 72 Polychrome Floral Painted 72

Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

Creator:: Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and Robert Wenger deserve a special thanks. Deb Schallert, moral supporter as well as excellent

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: John Draper, Marcia Kimball, Florence Lebow, Robin McClintock, and Robert Wenger deserve a special

Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

Creator:: Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
Abstract:: Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to this research project. From Oregon State University: Dr. Robert Krahmer, who identified the wood

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
Full Text:: Township 12 South, Range 9 West, W.M., 1893 51 Charles W. Brown's Hilltop Ranch, circa 1910-16 54 Map

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
Full Text:: Township 12 South, Range 9 West, W.M., 1893 51 Charles W. Brown's Hilltop Ranch, circa 1910-16 54 Map

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

Creator:: Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
Abstract:: The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Assistant Curator of the City Museums of Edinburgh, and Mr. Robert Sandalands, Master of the Works for the

An Examination of Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Possible Trans-Pacific Contact in Pre-Columbian America

Creator:: Schaefer, Roger Glen
Abstract:: The purpose of this paper is the statement and examination of relevant data pertaining to the subject of trans-Pacific pre- Columbian contact. The paper's contents will be organized in to five major areas: oceanography, ship building, archaeology, religion and history, plus an introduction and conclusion. Each of these chapters will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Havercroft, Francine M.
Abstract:: During the summer of 1981, Oregon State University archaeologically tested three prehistoric sites on the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. Among the sites tested were typical Willamette Valley floodplain and adjacent upland sites. Most settlement-subsistence pattern models proposed for the Willamette Valley have been generated with data from the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: had differentiated into the three nearly distinct languages; furthermore, Jacobs (1937:66) states

The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

Creator:: Gray, Dennis J.
Abstract:: This study is a synthesis of the available ethnographic and relevant archaeological data pertaining to the Native American groups who formerly occupied the upper Rogue River drainage of southwestern Oregon. The information presented in this synthesis concerns the material, social and religious aspects of aboriginal life as practiced by the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Brauner and Thomas McClintock. Thanks also to Robert Winthrop for his guidance in the field of cultural

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

Creator:: Michael, Elva Olson
Abstract:: Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

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

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

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

An Examination of Historical and Archaeological Evidence of Possible Trans-Pacific Contact in Pre-Columbian America

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

The Takelma and their Athapascan kin : an ethnographic synthesis of southwestern Oregon

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

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