[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2011-10-10

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In this issue:
1. Committee on Historic Preservation To Meet in Weston
2. NHPRC Grant Reveals Collections
3. The Oregon Encyclopedia Features October Programs
4. Walking Tour, Presentations Featured in Lake Oswego



COMMITTEE ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION TO MEET IN WESTON

Oregon’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation (SACHP)
will consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places in
a two-day meeting on Oct. 13-14 at the Weston Memorial Hall, 210 East
Main Street, Weston. The public meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Oct. 13
and at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 14. 

The committee will review proposed nominations for individual
properties in Clatskanie, Roseburg, Talent, Cottage Grove, Depoe Bay,
and Portland; two properties in Weston and three in Enterprise. 
Nominations recommended by the SACHP go to the National Park Service,
which maintains the Register under the authority of the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Members of the committee hold
credentials in many historic preservation-related fields.

Visit
http://www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/nrhp_sachphome.shtml to
view the meeting agenda. The meeting site is accessible to people with
disabilities. Call (503) 986-0655 for special accommodations. To learn
more about the National Register and listed Oregon properties, visit
www.oregonheritage.org (click on “National Register” at left of
page). 


NHPRC GRANT REVEALS COLLECTIONS

Over one hundred additional archival collections at small, private
liberal-arts colleges in Washington and Oregon are now accessible
through the Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA). Funded by a grant from
the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the
granting arm of the National Archives and Records Administration, the
project is assisting seven small liberal-arts colleges in Oregon and
Washington with archival program development and to expose basic
information about their collections to researchers. 

Institutions participating in the project are Concordia University,
George Fox University, Linfield College, Pacific University, Seattle
University, Seattle Pacific University, and the University of Puget
Sound. Participating institutions were gratified to report immediate
increases in collection use directly attributable to the grant. When the
project concludes in June 2012, all participants expect increased use of
their collections and a documented increase in institutional support for
their archives programs.

The project involves significant records that document the activities
of religious groups in the Northwest, including their roles in the
development of educational institutions and the settlement of the
Northwest. Other topics include local and neighborhood history; the
history of the Oregon wine industry, and the activities of individuals
and organizations. To conduct research or to learn more, visit
http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/index.shtml . 


THE OREGON ENCYCLOPEDIA FEATURES OCTOBER PROGRAMS

Michael Munk will present “Real Class Warfare: The Great 1934
Longshore Strike in Portland” beginning at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, at the
Rialto Poolroom and Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave, Portland. The talk will cover
the strike, which began on May 9, 1934 and split the city of Portland
between sympathizers and those opposed, who called upon President
Roosevelt to end it with federal troops. Monk authored “The Portland
Red Guide: Sites & Stories of Our Radical Past” and taught at Rutgers
University for more than 25-years. 

History Night continues at 7 p.m., Oct. 17, with Dan Haneckow
presenting “High Water: Portland in the Flood of 1894” at McMenamins
Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan, Portland. Haneckow will explore
Portland of the 1890s and its watery ordeal with stunning images of the
“Metropolis of the Northwest” as it dealt with one of its greatest
challenges. 

Robert Hadlow, Dave Sell, and George Fekaris will round out October
with a film titled, “The Historic Columbia River Highway: A Study of
its History, Decline, and Preservation” starting at 6:30 p.m., Oct.
25, at McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. Completed in
1922, the Columbia River Highway became the first modern highway in the
Pacific Northwest and the first scenic highway in the United States. The
film will chronicle the highway’s story from construction through
today and the future. 

For more information about the Oregon Enclyopedia’s History Month
programs, visit www.oregonencyclopedia.org .


WALKING TOUR, PRESENTATIONS FEATURED IN LAKE OSWEGO

“Turning Oswego’s Iron into Gold:  Paul C. Murphy as Alchemist”
will be the subject of a presentation by Marylou Colver from 7 - 8 p.m.,
Oct. 26 at the Lake Oswego Public Library, l706 4th Street, Lake Oswego.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Oswego became the home of
two of the first iron furnaces on the West Coast and as a result a
bustling iron manufacturing center. After Oswego’s iron industry
collapsed at the end of the nineteenth century, Paul C. Murphy’s
vision led to repurposing the extensive land holdings of the Oregon Iron
and Steel Company during the early twentieth century into exclusive
residential districts. A golf course, riding trails, a polo field, and
swim parks, helped fulfill the promise of the Ladd Estate Company’s
sales slogan, “Live where you play.” 

Mary Lou Colver and Erin O’Rourke-Meadors of the Lake Oswego
Preservation Society will tell the story of five families that came to
the Oswego area for different reasons in their presentation, “The
Story of Five Families of Old Town: A Walking Tour”, from 3 - 5 p.m.,
Oct. 29. Participants will learn about an Oregon Trail pioneer lured by
free land, ironworkers that left other iron regions in the east to work
in Oswego, the wife of a metallurgist, an executive, and an immigrant. 
Coming from as far away as the Maderia Islands of Portugal and as close
as Iowa, their education level and cultural background varied widely;
they contributed significantly to the community, the region, and the
state. The tour will begin at the southeast corner of Leonard and Durham
Streets in Lake Oswego and conclude with an exhibit in the iron
worker’s cottage and the George Rogers House. 

For more information on the above events, call the Lake Oswego Public
Library at (503) 675-2540 or email loref at ci.oswego.or.us .


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