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... that Eliza Barchus (pictured), who was widely recognized for her paintings of the Cascade Range volcanoes, sold many postcards of her work to augment her income?
...that Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and turned a hundred years old in 2007?
...that missionary Josiah Parrish drove the first spike for the Oregon and California Railroad, and had a land dispute reach the U. S. Supreme Court?
... that, in 2004, Portland City Grill became Oregon's first restaurant to make Restaurants & Institutions magazine's list of the "top 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants" in the United States?

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