Portal:Oregon/DYK/82


 * ... that Oregon banned alcohol twice (logo of trade group pictured) before the rest of America: once prior to statehood, from 1844 to 1845, and then again in 1915, four years before passage of the 18th Amendment?
 * ... that Kelly Point, where the Willamette River meets the Columbia River in Oregon, was part of the former Pearcy Island?
 * ... that Darleen Ortega became the first Latina judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals in 2003?
 * ... that transit service in Portland, Oregon, in the 1960s was provided solely by privately owned companies, with Rose City Transit in the city proper and the "Blue Bus" lines in the suburbs?

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 * 1) Recent additions 237, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions 238, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions 238, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 4) Recent additions/2011/June, Archive of Main Page appearance.