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Archive Home > 2008 > January > 06 > Three historic Valley villages

Three historic Valley villages

Brownsville, Oakland and Independence preserve their pasts

By John Gottberg Anderson / The Bulletin
January 6, 2008

BROWNSVILLE —

Prunes and turkey, wool and hops, railroads and riverboats: These are the things that enabled some of Oregon’s earliest communities to endure in the face of unlikely odds.

Many of the pioneer settlements that were established in the Willamette and Umpqua valleys....

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