- ...that Josiah Failing (pictured) became the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon, less than three years after moving there from New York City?
- ...that Eugene, Oregon's The Register-Guard is the second-largest newspaper in Oregon?
- ...that film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout, location manager, assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy?
- ... that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona?