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Mitchell Monument
...that the
Mitchell Recreation Area
(monument pictured)
near
Bly
,
Oregon
, is the only location in the
contiguous United States
where Americans were killed during
World War II
as a direct result of enemy action?
...that Oregon’s first
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries
,
O. P. Hoff
, was in charge of the first
minimum wage
law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
...that
Johnson Creek
, one of the few free-flowing streams in the
Portland
,
Oregon
area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
... that after winning a
Pulitzer Prize
at
The Oregonian
,
Wallace Turner
went on to
The New York Times
, where he covered the murder of
Harvey Milk
?
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