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Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse

... that the Morse U.S. Courthouse (pictured) in Eugene, Oregon, was the first new federal courthouse to earn a LEED Gold certification and the first U.S. courthouse featured at the Venice Biennale of Architecture?
... that Reedville Creek Park had the first skatepark in a Hillsboro, Oregon, park when it opened in 2003?
... that Native American activist Robert Robideau was acquitted in the 1975 shooting deaths of two FBI agents, for which his cousin Leonard Peltier was later convicted and is serving two life sentences?
... that the Oregon white truffle is a major component of the diet of Northern flying squirrels?

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