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... that in 1854, Charles S. Drew (pictured) was appointed quartermaster general of the Oregon territorial militia by Democratic governor John W. Davis, but was removed from office when he joined the Know-Nothing Party?
...that the Hillsboro Civic Center was only the second city hall in America to earn an LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council?
...that gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon, the same valley in which a 17 pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?
... that during an 1864 expedition to resupply Army posts in eastern Oregon, Captain John M. Drake discovered fossils in the area that is now the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument?

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