The sanctuary of a Presbyterian church in Yachats, Oregon, has six windows with panes made of agates collected from the local beaches.

The book was first made available to the public at OOPSLA meeting held in Portland, Oregon, in October 1994.

Garfield's report, along with others, created enough doubt to change the election results in that state, as well as in Florida, South Carolina, and Oregon ; these states then were saddled with two conflicting slates of electoral votes, which under the Constitution made Congress the final arbiter of the election.

Bourbon also has been made in California, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, and most likely in other U. S. states as well.

Yakuza activity in the United States is mostly relegated to Hawaii, but they have made their presence known in other parts of the country, including Fresno, Raleigh, Houston, Oregon, Denver, Chicago, and New York City.

What became called the Oregon Trail was complete even as improved roads, " cutouts ", ferries and bridges made the trip faster and safer almost every year.

The winter before, Marcus Whitman had made a brutal mid-winter trip from Oregon to St. Louis to appeal a decision by his Mission backers to abandon several of the Oregon missions.

Vanderbilt decided to use paddle wheel steam ships from the U. S. to the San Juan river, small paddle wheel steam launches on the San Juan river, boats across Lake Nicaragua, and a stage coach to the Pacific where connections could be made with another ship headed to California, Oregon, etc .. Vanderbilt, by undercutting fares to the Isthmus of Panama and stealing many of the Panama Railroad workers, managed to attract roughly 30 % of the California bound steam boat traffic.

The Supreme Court's decision overturns a ruling made by the Oregon Supreme Court that upheld the award.

Some changes were made to the plot of the film, including changing the setting date from 1960 to 1959 and the location of Castle Rock from the state of Maine to Oregon.

The latter's music " made for a stark geographical anomaly, since its eclectic, avant-garde folk-metal was the sort of thing one would expect to emerge from Scandinavia -- not Portland, Oregon.

What is believed to be the first flag of Oregon produced was made that year by Meier & Frank, sewn by Marjorie Kennedy and Blanche Cox, employees of the department store.

Lafayette, the principal trading center of the western Willamette Valley in early Oregon history, was made the county seat in 1847.

In 1851, a group of prospectors moved to the Illinois Valley and made the first discovery of gold in Southern Oregon.

In 1883, the Oregon and California Railroad first made it to Grants Pass, in Jackson County at the time.

Oregon County men made up Companies A, D, F, and G. On August 10, 1861 they fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield and were victorious.

However, the rapid increase in Westward exploration and expansion ultimately made Independence the starting point for three of the great Westward Trails: the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail and the California Trail.

The town made history in December 1999, when it agreed to rename ( proclaim ) itself as Half. com, Oregon ( albeit temporarily: for a year ) after the e-commerce company as a publicity stunt and became the first city in the United States to rename itself for a dot-com company.

Competition with railroads that extended south from the Columbia River into central Oregon and the newly opened McKenzie Pass Highway made the wagon road obsolete by the late 1930s.

A town was platted by 1880, and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company built a railroad through the Echo by 1883, which made the town a shipping point for wool, cattle and sheep during the early 1900s.

Reid came to Oregon in 1874 to establish the Oregonian Railway, and made several extensions to the railroad in the western Willamette Valley.

He likewise made himself the authority on the Oregon boundary dispute, with the result that in 1846 he was sent as minister plenipotentiary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historian Macaulay and the poet Hallam.

His mother, Margaret Green Reed, was the daughter of a leading Portland citizen who had made a fortune through three enterprises: as owner of the first gas works in Oregon, owner of the first pig iron smelter on the west coast, and as second owner of the Portland water works.

A native of Oregon, Jack Reed made New York City the base of his operations.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

Deschutes River ( Oregon ) | Deschutes River at its confluence with the Columbia

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

Physician-assisted suicide is thus not classified as euthanasia by the US State of Oregon, where it is legal under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, and despite its name, it is not legally classified as suicide either.

Spear throwers and their large points were replaced by the bow and arrow with its small narrow points beginning in Oregon and Washington.

The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.

In addition to its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, MIPS has development facilities in Shanghai, China and Beaverton, Oregon.

PTP is a non-profit organization in the state of Oregon, and received its 501 ( c )( 3 ) status ( a federal tax exemption granted to charitable organizations ) in early 2003.

In its 1993 ruling in U. S. National Bank of Oregon v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, the Supreme Court ruled that § 92 was still valid law.

A PDP-7A ( S # 115 ) was under restoration in Oslo, Norway, a second PDP-7A ( S # 113 ) previously located at the University of Oregon in its Nuclear Physics laboratory is now at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington and is almost completely restored to running condition after being disassembled for transport.

* The George Alan Connor Esperanto Collection at the University of Oregon includes many titles, catalogued in its bibliographic guide, Catalog of the George Alan Connor Esperanto Collection ( 1978 ).

For example, Portland, Oregon a U. S. city which has pursued smart growth policies, substantially increased its population density between 1990 and 2000 when other US cities of a similar size were reducing in density.

* 2007: Staff of The Oregonian, " for its skillful and tenacious coverage of a family missing in the Oregon mountains, telling the tragic story both in print and online.

From the early to mid 1830s and particularly through the epoch years 1846 – 1869 the Oregon Trail and its many offshoots were used by about 400, 000 settlers, ranchers, farmers, miners, and businessmen and their families.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: " The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado and / or other river may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.

This knowledge would be incorporated into the concatenated trail segments as the Oregon Trail took its early shape.

In theory, the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 restored the U. S. back to its possessions in Oregon territory.

By 1840 the Hudson's Bay Company had three forts: Fort Hall ( purchased from Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth in 1837 ), Fort Boise and Fort Nez Perce on the western end of the Oregon Trail route as well as Fort Vancouver near its terminus in the Willamette Valley.

Fur traders tried to use the Platte River, the main route of the eastern Oregon Trail, for transport but soon gave up in frustration as its many channels and islands combined with its muddy waters were too shallow, crooked and unpredictable to use for water transport.

Overall it is estimated that over 400, 000 pioneers used the Oregon Trail and its three primary off-shoots, the California, Bozeman, and Mormon Trails.

By 1870 the population in the states served by the Oregon Trail and its offshoots increased by about 350, 000 over their 1860 census levels.

With the exception of most of the 180, 000 population increase in California, most of these people living away from the coast traveled over parts of the Oregon trail and its many extensions and cutoffs to get to their new residences.

These northern routes were largely abandoned after Britain ceded its claim to the southern Columbia River basin by way of the Oregon Treaty of 1846.