Heppner, Oregon, (1889)
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Title
Heppner , Oregon , (1889)
Date.Original
1889
Publisher
Portland , Or. : North Pacific History Company
Description
1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm . Insets : Morrow Land and Trust Company and O . R & N Co . Depot , Public School , Post Office and Heppner & Blackmann , First National Bank , M.E Church , Dr . E . R . Swinburne Residence , and the Roller Mill . Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington . Portland , Or. : North Pacific History Co. , 1889 . v . 2 , p . 70 Heppner's first settler arrived in 1869 , and the area was originally named Stansbury Flats after that first settler , George Stansbury . Located at the convergence of five canyons and three creeks , Heppner was ideally situated as a central trading center , and the town grew very rapidly . By 1873 , 4 years after the first settler arrived , the town had at least two general stores , a doctor , a drug store , a saloon , a post office , and a school . Much of the residential area seen here was destroyed in a 1903 flash flood which killed 200 people .
Subject
Oregon--Maps ; Heppner , Oregon--Pictorial works
Type
Image
Genre
Maps ; Bird's-eye views
Location Depicted
United States--Oregon--Morrow county--Heppner
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu341 ; F852.H67 1889 v . 2 c.2
Holding Institution
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections , Washington State University Libraries
Digitization
Original maps were scanned in color at 400 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries.
Format
image/jpg2000
Contributors
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections
Language
English
Source
Is found in History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington , 1889. F852.H67 1889 v. 2 c.2 at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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