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Mitchell Monument

...that the Mitchell Recreation Area (monument pictured) near Bly, Oregon, is the only location in the contiguous United States where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
...that Oregon’s first Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, O. P. Hoff, was in charge of the first minimum wage law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
...that Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
... that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian, Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times, where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk?

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