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... that the North Umpqua kalmiopsis (pictured) was, for over 50 years, thought to be a form of the floral species Kalmiopsis leachiana?
...that Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions for both the most cited case of that court and the controversial overturning of a voter approved ballot measure?
...that a clock tower added to the old Washington County Courthouse in 1891 did not have a working clock?
... that the original owner of the Albert S. Sholes House worked with Edward Schulmerich, whose house was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places?

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