• French Settlement is the original name of Melrose, Oregon and its neighbouring valleys in Douglas County including Flournoy, Garden and Coles valleys...
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  • in Louisiana: French Settlement, Louisiana - French settlement in Louisiana For an early settlement in Oregon: French Settlement, Oregon - Renamed long...
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    permanent European settlements in Oregon were established by fur trappers and traders. In 1843, an autonomous government was formed in the Oregon Country, and...
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    up the Columbia River into the interior. British and French Canadian fur traders had entered Oregon Country prior to 1810 before the arrival of American...
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    that part of the Oregon Country, French Canadian/Métis people who were mostly former employees of the Hudson's Bay Company. "French Prairie" naming was...
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    The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought...
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    James McKinney was the first postmaster. Named earlier on as French Settlement, Oregon. "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau...
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    expedition of 1810 entered the Willamette Valley of present-day Oregon, it included 13 French Canadian Catholics. Several of them, including the fur trader...
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    devastating epidemics and settlement, first by French fur traders and later by an overwhelming number of American settlers. French fur traders had settled...
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    years. These first settlements were: French Prairie, Frenchtown near Walla Walla, Cowlitz Prairie (Washington), French Settlement (Oregon) and Frenchtown...
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    The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North...
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    state of Oregon. Now a ghost town, it was an important settlement in the Willamette Valley in the early 1840s. Located halfway between Oregon City and...
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    leisure activities. The area's first European-American settlement was established in the 1800s by French fur trappers. La Pine was founded in the 19th century...
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    city in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The population was 16,010 at the 2020 census, and it is the largest city in Oregon along the Columbia River...
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    The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River...
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  • Washington French Immersion School of Washington École Franco-américaine de la Silicon Valley French American International School (Portland, Oregon) Portland...
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    La Grande (/ləˈɡrænd/) is a city in Union County, Oregon, United States. La Grande is Union County's largest city, with a population of 13,082 at the time...
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    The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley. It was used during the...
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    The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of North...
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    There are 36 counties in the U.S. State of Oregon. The Oregon Constitution does not explicitly provide for county seats; Article VI, covering the "Administrative...
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    where the Old French hamelet came to apply to small human settlements. The word comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet, corresponding to Old French hamelet, the...
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    inhibit French settlement west of the Mississippi River. Fearing the loss of his American territories in the Seven Years' War, King Louis XV of France ceded...
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    The Oregon Coast is a coastal region of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to its west and the Oregon Coast Range to the east...
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    the county. The word "malheur" is French for misfortune or tragedy. Malheur County is included in the Ontario, Oregon Micropolitan Statistical Area, which...
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    Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan...
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    The Three Sisters are closely spaced volcanic peaks in the U.S. state of Oregon. They are part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Cascade Range...
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  • 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2017. Liu, Marian (January 30, 2017). "Miss France beats Haiti and Colombia to clinch Miss Universe title". CNN. Archived from...
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    of Portland, Oregon, a major population center. In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a...
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    Florence is a coastal city in Lane County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on the Pacific Ocean and about midway...
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    The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk...
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