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    Umatilla Bridge #2117 – Pendleton OR

    Date added: December 6, 2023; Modified: March 2, 2024

    With Public Works Administration (PWA) funding, the Oregon Highway Department constructed Umatilla Bridge #2117, also known as the Ballpark Bridge, in 1935. Part of Highway #30 in Pendleton when constructed, Oregon’s state bridge designer Conde B. McCullough drew art deco… read more

    Ainsworth State Park - Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area OR

    Ainsworth State Park – Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area OR

    Date added: October 4, 2023; Modified: November 6, 2023

    During 1935, Civilian Conservation Corps workers made improvements to Ainsworth State Park, thirty-six miles east of Portland on the Columbia River Highway. John C. Ainsworth, former chairman of the State Highway Commission (1931-1932) donated the original forty acres for the… read more

    Mark Prairie School Latrine - Canby OR

    Mark Prairie School Latrines (former) – Canby OR

    Date added: October 4, 2023; Modified: October 7, 2023

    Among the many sanitary privies constructed by Work Project Administration (WPA) employees across America from 1935-1943, two latrines remain at Mark Prairie School near Canby, Oregon. Using the concrete vault design, these simple structures represented a significant increase in public… read more

    Path with rock wall and benches, Lithia Park - Ashland OR

    Lithia Park Improvements – Ashland OR

    Date added: October 16, 2017; Modified: August 31, 2023

    The Works Progress Administration (WPA) made extensive improvements to Lithia Park, a 100-acre park at the heart of Ashland OR, from 1935 to 1938. Lithia Park was established in the early 20th century along Ashland Creek above the main town… read more

    East Portland Station Post Office – Portland OR

    Date added: February 19, 2013; Modified: July 26, 2023

    The historic East Portland Station post office was constructed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1936. The post office houses New Deal artwork.

    Emigrant Springs Community Center in clearing of former CCC campsite - Pendleton OR

    CCC Camp Emigrant Springs (former) – Pendleton OR

    Date added: July 5, 2023

    In 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed Camp Emigrant Springs for their use while improving the State Park at that location. Approximately twenty-five miles southeast of Pendleton near the summit of the Blue Mountains, the park marked a historical… read more

    Summit Creek Guard Station Bunkhouse -LaGrande OR

    Summit Creek Guard Station – LaGrande OR

    Date added: July 5, 2023; Modified: July 5, 2023

    Located in the Umatilla Forest of northeastern Oregon, the Summit Creek Guard Station provides an early example of the US Forest Service’s development of such forest management complexes. Overtime, guard stations replaced lookout towers. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees began construction… read more

    Pronghorn Antelope at Hart Mountain National Animal Refuge - Lakeview OR

    Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge – Lakeview OR

    Date added: May 13, 2023; Modified: May 14, 2023

    President Roosevelt signed an executive order on December 21, 1936 to establish the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge in Lake County, Oregon. This area served the largest, remaining pronghorn antelope herd in the United States. Comprised of Hart Mountain and the… read more

    Former CCC Camp Hart Building - Lakeview OR

    CCC Camp Hart Mountain – Lakeview OR

    Date added: June 21, 2012; Modified: May 8, 2023

    “A former CCC camp is located at the base of Hart Mountain. From this camp, Company 3442 carried out various projects, including fence construction and the installation of telephone lines. The remaining building was the camp infirmary. The CCC campsite… read more