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... that
Frances Fuller Victor
(pictured)
, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian
Hubert Howe Bancroft
's monumental work,
The History of the West
?
... that the historic
N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store
is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown
Bend
,
Oregon
?
... that water from the
Little Applegate River
was used in the
mine
in
Sterlingville
, the largest hydraulic mine in
Oregon
and possibly the entire
western United States
?
... that the
Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center
in
Hillsboro, Oregon
, was built for
$2.5 million
but remodeled and expanded at a cost of
$9 million
?
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