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Posts tagged with Tillamook

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The Student Planter’s Grove

The Oregon Travel Information Council
Tillamook

The Oregon Travel Information Council
The Student Planters’ Grove (Pseudotsuga menziesii) came to life between 1949 and 1973, when an army of volunteers helped plant an estimated 72 million trees to reforest the Tillamook Burn—one of the largest forest replanting efforts in history. Here, in the area of Cedar Creek Flat, the new forest was [...]



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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

How My Family Came to Oregon

Linnea Wittekind
Tillamook, OR

Linnea Wittekind
My ancestor/great-great-great-great-grandpa James Fremont Reheer moved with his wife and 10 children to Oregon from Kansas in April, 1887. They first arrived in Portland by train and stayed until October, 1887, when the lure of trees caused them to move to Tillamook, Oregon. That next summer (1888), they decided that they would go 25 [...]