- ...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (pictured) in Salem is the third-largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
- ...that the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Ralph Wilcox killed himself with a Deringer pistol while at work at the federal court?
- ...that William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now Washington?
- ... that Bag & Baggage Productions staged the first professional, outdoor showing of a Shakespeare play in Hillsboro, Oregon?