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... that the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel (pictured) in Dufur, Oregon, are 18 inches (460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer months?
... that Native Americans occupied sites throughout the East Lake Abert Archeological District for approximately 11,000 years?
... that Benjamin Franklin Burch, a teacher at the first school in Polk County, Oregon, was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention and President of the Oregon State Senate?
... that a U.S. Forest Service district ranger lived in a tent for eight years while waiting for a residence to be built at the Rand Ranger Station?

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