Wyatt Earp

 

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15.06.

On this day in 1925 the U.S. Navy bestowed the battleship Oregon to the State of Oregon as a patriotic memorial of her famous cruise, a record voyage made in the spring of 1898 when the vessel steamed 4,726 miles from Puget Sound to Sand Key, Florida without a stop for any purpose and according to official reports, "without a loose bolt or screw out of order. At Santiago, Cuba, the Oregon fired the first shot in a contest which sealed the fate of the Spanish Navy.

Und seine Liebe Frau Josephine

 

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19.04.

"The City Council has been duly organized, but what progress has been made by way of creating ordinances, we are not informed. It is to be hoped, however, that something will be speedily done, to protect the persons and property of our citizens from lawless violation, at the hands of desperadoes, who came here to gamble, cheat, rob and steal, and murder if it suits their fancy, or subserves their interests."

Oregonian

April 19, 1851

Morgan Earp

 

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21.05.

On this day in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Lewis and Clark Monument in City Park, Portland.

The event was witnessed by thousands and heralded the approaching Lewis and Clark Exposition with much significance. Earlier in the year, the Oregon Legislature authorized an appropriation of $500,000 for the grand exposition.

Und seine Liebe Frau Louisa

 

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27.11.

On this day in 1847, Oregon's first fruit nursery arrived at the present site of Milwaukie. Known as the Traveling Nursery because it was transported to Oregon on wheels, this selection of 800 young apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry trees was the idea of Henderson Welling, a successful nurseryman from Henry County, Iowa.

In the spring of 1847, Welling and his son Alfred, left Iowa driving two four-yoke ox teams hauling tree-laden wagons. In 1851 a good crop of apples and cherries were harvested from these trees and four bushels of apples subsequently sold in San Francisco for $500. So began the first nursery on America's Pacific coast.