Oregon

Portland is under consideration to be the home of a major league baseball team. See also Memphis Mafia. It was also the end of the Oregon Trail and the site of the first public library established west of the Rocky Mountains, stocked with only 300 volumes.
. Oregon City was the first incorporated city west of the Rockies and later, the first capital of the Oregon Territory, from 1848 to 1852, when the territory capital was moved to Salem, Oregon. Other. Salem is the second largest city, followed closely by Eugene to the south. Military.

The capital is Salem and the largest city is Portland. Sports Figures. See: List of Oregon cities. Jurists, Politicians and Activists. About 60% of the 138,197 new residents come from ethnic and racial minorities. Asian growth is located mostly in the metropolitan areas of Portland, Salem, and Eugene; Hispanic population growth is across the state. Businesspeople. Estimates released September 2004 show double-digit growth in Latino and Asian American populations since the 2000 Census. Actors, Directors and Musicians.

While some parts of the USA have church membership rates as high as 80 %, it runs only about 12 % in Oregon. Other museums in the area include:. Although most people from Oregon still identify themselves (at least nominally) as Christians, Oregon has the lowest church membership of all 50 states. Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. The three largest Protestant denominations in Oregon are: Baptist (9% of the total state population), Lutheran (7%), Methodist (5%). The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. The religious affiliations of the citizens of Oregon are:. Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

A list of Oregon locations by per capita income is also available. The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. Females made up approximately 50.4% of the population. A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. 6.5% of Oregon's population were reported as under 5, 24.7% under 18, and 12.8% were 65 or older. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. The 4 largest ancestry groups in Oregon are German (20.5%), English (13.2%), Irish (11.9%), Mexican (6.3%). was assassinated.

The racial makeup of the state is:. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Census Bureau, as of 2003, Oregon's population was estimated at 3,559,596 people. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. According to the U.S. There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. See also the list of people from Oregon and the list of Portlanders. Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis.

Oregon is home to a number of smaller breweries. Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, held in Ashland, is a tourist draw near its Californian border which complements the area's scenic beauty and opportunity for outdoor activities. The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. Tourism is also strong in the state; Oregon's evergreen mountain forests, waterfalls, pristine lakes (including Crater Lake National Park), and scenic beaches draw visitors year round. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. Oregon had one of the largest salmon-fishing industries in the world, although ocean fisheries have reduced the river fisheries in recent years. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer.

OSDL made news in 2004 when they hired Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux kernel. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. The recession and dot-com bust of 2001 in the Silicon Valley has led to similar results in the Silicon Forest; many high technology employers have either reduced the number of their employees or gone out of business. Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. The spinoffs and startups that were produced by these two companies led to the establishment of the Portland metropolitan area as the Silicon Forest. Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. Intel's creation and expansion of several plants in eastern Washington County continued the growth that Tektronix had started. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May.

High technology industries and services have been a major employer since the 1970s. Tektronix was the largest private employer in Oregon until the late 1980s. There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. in Washington, 2,731 in California, 2,413 in Georgia and 2,327 in Mississippi. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. Despite these changes, Oregon still leads the United States in softwood lumber production: in 2001, according to the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, 6,056 million board feet (14,000,000 m³) was produced in Oregon, against 4,5257 mbf. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. Examples include the Weyerhaeuser's acquisition of Willamette Industries in January, 2002, the announcement by Louisiana Pacific in September, 2003 that they will relocate their corporate headquarters from Portland to Nashville, and the experiences of small lumber towns like Gilchrist. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Even the shift in recent years towards finished goods such as paper and building materials have not slowed the decline of the timber industry. Rock and roll is located in the city also. According to the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, timber harvested from federal lands dropped some 96% from 1989 from 4,333 million to 173 million board feet (10,000,000 to 408,000 m³) in 2001. While the 1980s saw an unsustainable amount of timber harvested, the drop in timber harvested is still significant, as the total amount of timber harvested in 2001 is less than half of that in the late 1970s. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". Her forests have historically made Oregon one of the nation's major timber production or logging states, but forest fires (such as the Tillamook Burn), over-harvesting, and law suits over the proper management of the extensive federal forest holdings have reduced the amount of timber produced. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. While the history of the wine production in Oregon can be traced to before Prohibition, it became a significant industry beginning in the 1970s, and Oregon is home to at least four wine appellations. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Oregon is also one of four major world hazelnut growing regions, and produces most of the domestic hazelnuts in the United States. 20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. Apples and other fruits, cattle, dairy products, potatoes, and peppermint are all valuable products. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. The Willamette Valley is very fertile, and coupled with Oregon's famous rains, gives the state a wealth of agricultural products. Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. Oregon is represented at the federal level by two senators and five representatives, which translates into seven electoral votes. The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767.

This ban was not officially lifted until 1925; in 2002, additional racist language was struck from the Oregon Constitution by the voters in Oregon. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males.
Entering the Union at a time when the status of "Negroes" was very much in question, and wishing to stay out of the looming conflict between the so-called "Union" and "Confederate" States, Oregon banned Negroes from moving into the State in the vote to adopt its Constitution (1858). For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. Oregon has been a pioneer in the use of vote-by-mail:. The median age is 32 years. During the same period, the legislature has referred 363 measures to the people, of which 206 have passed. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older.

Of the measures placed on the ballot since 1902, the people have passed 99 of the 288 initiatives and 25 of the 61 referenda on the ballot, though not all of them survived challenges in courts (see Pierce v. Society of Sisters, for example). The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. In following years, the primary election to select party candidates was adopted in 1904, and in 1908 the Oregon Constitution was amended to include recall of public officials. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. Under his leadership, the state overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution. There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. U'Ren and his Direct Legislation League. 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Oregon adopted many electorial reforms proposed during the Progressive Era, due to the efforts of William S. The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. They choose one of their own to serve a six-year term as Chief Justice. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the United States Supreme Court. There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/km² (972.2/mi²). The court has seven elected justices. The population density is 898.6/km² (2,327.4/mi²). The Oregon Supreme Court (http://www.ojd.state.or.us/courts/supreme/index.htm) is the highest court in the Oregon judicial branch. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city.

Senators serve four-year terms, and Representatives two. Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. Governors in Oregon serve four-year terms. The Oregon Legislature consists of a thirty-member Senate and sixty-member House. Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 m²).
Oregon geology: Abert Rim (image description) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/AbertRim-cleft.jpg). Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. Crater Lake National Park is Oregon's only national park. Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage.

Its mean elevation is 1 km (3,300 ft). It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. As a West Coast state, its lowest point is sea level. Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. Its highest point is the summit of Mount Hood, at 3,428 m (11,239 ft). Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. In terms of land and water area, Oregon is the ninth largest state, covering 254,819 km² (98,386 square miles). The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.

The state is about 580 km (360 miles) long and 420 km (261 miles) wide. The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. The state varies from rain forest in the Columbia Gorge to barren desert in the southeast, which still meets the technical definition of a frontier. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. Oregon's geography may be split roughly into six areas:. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. See also: List of Oregon counties, Oregon Geographic Names, List of Oregon rivers, List of Oregon mountain ranges, List of Oregon state parks. Census.

The poet William Cullen Bryant took the name from Carver's book and used it in his poem "Thanatopsis" to refer to the recent discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; this use helped establish it in modern use. The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. In 1778, Jonathan Carver used Oregon to label the Great River of the West in his book Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. More than this, it is completely disproved by all that is known of the name." Others have speculated that the name is related to the kingdom of Aragon. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. He wrote that it was "a mere conjecture absolutely without support. The total area is 5.24% water.

Scott, an early editor of Oregonian. 723.4 km² (279.3 mi²) of it is land and 40.0 km² (15.4 mi²) of it is water. The theory that it comes from oregano, was dismissed years ago by Henry W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 km² (294.8 mi²). Less supported theories are based on it having a Spanish etymology. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. Why Rogers used the name has led to many theories, which include:. See also: List of mayors of Memphis.

The petition referred to Ouragon and asked for money to finance an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. The earliest known use of this proper noun was in a 1765 petition by Major Robert Rogers to the Kingdom of Great Britain. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. The origin of the state's name is something of a mystery. Prior to his election, Dr. State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political spectrum - anti-gay, pro-religious measures on the same ballot as liberal drug decriminalization measures. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor.

Californians (or outsiders in general). Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. anti-tax activists, and native Oregonians vs. Dr. anti-racists, supporters of social spending vs. Herenton. environmentalists, white supremacists vs. W.

farmers, wealthy growing cities vs. established but poor rural areas, loggers vs. W. settlers from the U.S., ranchers vs. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. British fur trappers, British vs. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. The state has a long history of polarizing conflicts: Native Americans vs. In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

The power, food, and lumber provided by Oregon have helped fuel the development of the west, and the periodic fluctuations in the nation's building industry has severely impacted the state's economy on multiple occasions. The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. Industrial expansion began in earnest following the construction of the Bonneville Dam in 1943 on the Columbia River. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. In the 1880s, railroads enabled marketing of the state's lumber and wheat, as well as the more rapid growth of its cities. "Boss" Crump. The state was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859. H.

Settlement increased due to the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, in conjunction with the forced relocation of the native population to Indian Reservations in Oregon. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. The Oregon Territory was officially organized in 1848. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. Cooler heads prevailed, and the boundary between the United States and British North America was set at the 49th parallel. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. In 1844, the Democrat James Polk ran for President on the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight," referring to the northern border of the Oregon Country at latitude 54°40′. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

The border was resolved in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty after a period where it seemed that the United States and the United Kingdom would go to war for a third time in 75 years. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. agreed to jointly settle the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. The Oregon Trail infused the region with new settlers, starting in 1842-43, after the U.S. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. John McLoughlin, who was appointed the Company's Chief Factor of the Columbia District, built Fort Vancouver in 1825. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

By the 1820s and 1830s, the British Hudson's Bay Company dominated the Pacific Northwest.
. In the War of 1812, the British gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company posts. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. In 1811, New York financier John Jacob Astor established Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River with the intention of starting a chain of Pacific Fur Company trading posts along the river. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. King. Exploration by Lewis and Clark (1805-1806) and Britain's David Thompson (1811) publicized the abundance of fur in the area. B.

They built their winter fort at Fort Clatsop, near the mouth of the Columbia River. Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. The Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled through the region during their expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase. The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. James Cook explored the coast in 1778 in search of the Northwest Passage. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). Oregon's earliest residents were several Native American tribes, including the Bannock, Chinook, Klamath, and Nez Perce. The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

Its population in 2000 was 3,421,399, a 20.4% increase over 1990; as of July 2004, the population had grown to an estimated 3,594,586. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. The state has pioneered some innovative solutions to the nation's environmental problems, such as the Oregon Bottle Bill, but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. They struggle to balance this with the desire to support the development needed to support its increasing population without losing what attracts people to Oregon in the first place. 35°7'3" N
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