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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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    (August 2006). "Conquering the Falls: The Willamette Falls Locks". History of the Willamette Falls. Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation. Archived from...
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    regulated by the Oregon Public Utility Commission. Founded in 1888 as the Willamette Falls Electric Company, the company has been an independent company for most...
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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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  • The Willamette Falls Paper Company (formerly the West Linn Paper Company) is an American paper manufacturing company with a paper mill located just above...
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    Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center (Willamette Falls) is a not-for-profit acute care hospital operated by Providence Health & Services in Oregon...
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  • world when Willamette Falls Electric company installed experimental AC generators from Westinghouse in 1890. That same year, the Niagara Falls Power Company...
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    was a paper mill at Willamette Falls in Oregon City, Oregon, on the southeast bank of the river across from the Willamette Falls Paper Company, the T...
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  • Forest in western Oregon Willamette Falls, a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn Willamette Meteorite, a meteorite...
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    Oregon City, Oregon (category Populated places on the Willamette River)
    confluence of the Clackamas River with the Willamette to take advantage of the power of Willamette Falls to run a lumber mill. During the 1840s and 1850s...
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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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  • upstream from the Willamette Falls. The area was first called Willamette Falls, but later shortened to Willamette. The first mayor of Willamette was James Downey...
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    The Willamette River is a 187-mile (301 km) tributary of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Oregon. The upper tributaries of the Willamette originate...
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    hazard to navigation, and all river traffic had to portage around Willamette Falls, where Oregon City had been established as the first major town inland...
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  • discovered the following day, April 13, floating against the lock system of Willamette Falls in similar burlap packaging; both the hands and foot had been severed...
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  • 2020-12-28. "Sivasamudram Falls, India – World Waterfall Database". www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com. Retrieved 2020-01-16. "Willamette Falls, Oregon, United States...
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    (PGE) T. W. Sullivan Hydroelectric Plant is a hydroelectric dam on the Willamette Falls built between 1888 and 1895. It is the source of the nation's first...
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    as Celilo Falls, The Chutes, Great Falls, or Columbia Falls, consisted of three sections: a cataract, called Horseshoe Falls or Tumwater Falls; a deep eddy...
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    Bridge is just downstream from the 40 ft (12 m) tall Willamette Falls and the Willamette Falls Locks, the oldest navigational locks in the United States...
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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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    River″, inhabited the Willamette Valley on the eastbank of the Willamette River as far as the Willamette Falls, above and below the Falls themselves on either...
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    they changed their name to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Willamette Falls in 2016. "National Register Information System". National Register...
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    Salt Creek Falls is a cascade and plunge waterfall on Salt Creek, a tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River, that plunges into a gaping canyon in...
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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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  • 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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    Clackamas people (category Willamette Valley)
    vegetables, and constructed large cedar platforms to dip their nets in over Willamette Falls to harvest salmon. The Clackamas women dried and smoked the salmon...
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    Celilo Falls Clatsop Plains Clatsop Spit Columbia Bar Columbia River Fort Clatsop Mount Mazama Nootka Sound Sauvie Island Willamette Falls Willamette Valley...
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    electricity was from a hydroelectric generating plant in Oregon at Willamette Falls which in 1890 sent power fourteen miles downriver to downtown Portland...
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  • closed after they finished shooting. The A/V club scenes were filmed at Willamette Falls Studios, a non-profit Public Access center in Oregon City. Everything...
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    Columbia River to the east, the Multnomah Channel to the west, and the Willamette River to the south. A large portion of the island is designated as the...
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