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... that Frances Fuller Victor (pictured), an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West?
... that the historic N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend, Oregon?
... that water from the Little Applegate River was used in the mine in Sterlingville, the largest hydraulic mine in Oregon and possibly the entire western United States?
... that the Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, was built for $2.5 million but remodeled and expanded at a cost of $9 million?

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