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    Willamette Chief was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1874 for the Willamette River Navigation Company. The builders of Willamette Chief intended her to...
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    The Willamette Valley (/wɪˈlæmɪt/ wil-AM-it) is a 150-mile (240 km) long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette...
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  • Willamette University is a private liberal arts college with locations in Salem and Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1842, it is the oldest college in the...
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    the Pacific Northwest in June 1842, navigating up the Columbia and the Willamette River to just below Oregon City, which was the largest settlement in the...
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    The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall in the northwestern United States, located on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon...
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    The Willamette River flows northwards down the Willamette Valley until it meets the Columbia River at a point 101 miles from the Pacific Ocean, in the...
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  • The Willamette University College of Law is the law school of Willamette University. Located in Salem, Oregon, and founded in 1883, Willamette is the oldest...
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  • Rene Gonzalez (politician) (category Willamette University College of Law alumni)
    federal prosecutor. In 1993, Gonzalez moved to Salem, Oregon, to attend Willamette University, where he was president of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and...
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  • Willamette Industries, Inc. was a Fortune 500 forest products company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. In 2002, the lumber and paper company was...
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    City Council Next Year". Willamette Week. Retrieved December 15, 2023. Bianco, Veronica (May 21, 2024). "Robin Ye, Former Chief of Staff to State Rep. Khanh...
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    Travis Nelson, incumbent Travis Nelson Willamette Week Portland Mercury Thuy Tran, incumbent Willy Chotzen, chief public defender Mary Lou Hennrich, former...
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    The Willamette Stone was a small stone obelisk originally installed by the Department of Interior in 1885 in the western hills of Portland, Oregon, in...
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    Willamette Valley and Columbia Basin, Moore bought title to approx. 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the west side of Willamette Falls, across the Willamette River...
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    T. J. Potter Telephone Undine Virginia V Wallamet Wenat Wide West Willamette Chief Wilson G. Hunt Winema Coastal vessels Bayocean Gazelle General Miles...
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    founder Lot Whitcomb onto his ship, The Lot Whitcomb, being the chief engineer on the Willamette River. The Lot Whitcomb was launched on 25 December 1850. Kamm...
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  • Willamette Week (WW) is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on...
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    businessman Ben Holladay. In 1874, Holladay put the sternwheelers Willamette Chief and the newly constructed Beaver in competition with the Hayward and...
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    The Willamette Falls Locks are a lock system on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1873 and closed since 2011, they allowed boat...
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    T. J. Potter Telephone Undine Virginia V Wallamet Wenat Wide West Willamette Chief Wilson G. Hunt Winema Coastal vessels Bayocean Gazelle General Miles...
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    similar but more well-known steamer operating on the lower Columbia and Willamette rivers at the time. Her trial run was on September 28, 1878, under Capt...
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    Willamette (Chinese: 威林密; pinyin: Wēilínmì) was an American steamer that was later purchased by China and saw action during the Taiping Rebellion. Willamette...
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    collision with the grounded steam schooner Alliance near the junction of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. Due to the hull of Alliance being made of wood, the...
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    Oregon City, Oregon (category Populated places on the Willamette River)
    county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area. As of...
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    (later Oregon Health & Science University). He endowed a scholarship at Willamette University in Salem. He endowed a chair at the Presbyterian's seminary...
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    first governor of Oregon under the provisional government based in the Willamette Valley, an area later a part of the American state of Oregon. He traveled...
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    (1868) Shoo Fly (1870) Alice (1871) Beaver (1873) Gov. Grover (1873) Willamette Chief (1874) Occident (1875) Orient (1875) O&CRR Ferry No. 2 (1879) Manzanillo...
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    Miller began running a flatboat between Canemah just above Willamette Falls on the Willamette River and Dayton, on the Yamhill River. Miller built a flatboat...
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    employment with the Oregon Steam Navigation Company (OSN), becoming its chief engineer in the early 1860s. He worked for OSN for 27 years. He designed...
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  • T. J. Potter Telephone Undine Virginia V Wallamet Wenat Wide West Willamette Chief Wilson G. Hunt Winema Coastal vessels Bayocean Gazelle General Miles...
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    Willamette Transportation Line was a line of four inland steamboats that operated from the fall of 1859 to the summer of 1860 on the upper Willamette...
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