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Frederick Van Voorhies Holman

... that Frederick Van Voorhies Holman (pictured) is credited with giving the nickname "Rose City" to Portland, Oregon?
... that a weir built to aid fish traveling up a fish ladder in Little Butte Creek was destroyed just three months later?
... that Gordon Faber, as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, once carried an ax while wearing an executioner's hood to an employee's performance review?
... that one of the reasons the vocals in "Louie Louie" are so slurred is that singer Jack Ely wore braces?

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