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Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Oregon

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Ghost Towns of Oregon

Historical Oregon Informations Services

Non-profit group that provides information on Oregon. Free services provided to the public include: a newsletter, Oregon places lookup and links pages for the genealogist and Oregon historian. We have a extensive data base of over 7,000 places in Oregon covering towns, post offices, ferry landings, mines, schools and stage stops. We also have books on Oregon and history at a low cost.

National Register of Historic Places

Oregon History Timeline

Oregon Pioneers - The Oregon Territory and It's Pioneers

Oregon Pioneers - The Wagon Train of 1843

Oregon State Archives - The Civilian Conservation Corps: Protecting Oregon's Resources

Oregon's Covered Bridges

The Covered Bridge Society of Oregon

The Oregon Encyclopedia

A partnership of Portland State University, the Oregon Council of Teachers of English, and the Oregon Historical Society, and a project of the Oregon Sesquicentennial Celebration, is a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of information about Oregon's history and culture.