Groveland | |
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Coordinates: 40°35′28″N89°31′59″W / 40.59111°N 89.53306°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Illinois |
County | Tazewell |
Elevation | 778 ft (237 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP code | 61535 [1] |
Area code | 309 |
Groveland is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. It has a small library, a school which is now a church, gas station, war memorial, country store with restaurant and chapel, churches, Pyramid Printing Inc. and a handful of other small businesses. It has approximately 1400 residents and is located near Pekin and Morton. It lies within ten miles of Peoria, [2] near Springfield Road and Edgewater Drive, which is Illinois State Route 98.
Eastmoreland is an early-twentieth century, tree-filled neighborhood in inner southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. Eastmoreland was named for a local real estate developer, Judge J.C. Moreland.
Oatfield is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is in the Portland metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 13,415.
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The New Northwest was an American weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, from 1871 to 1887 by Abigail Scott Duniway, and for another two years by O. P. Mason. One of the first newspapers in the Western United States to champion the cause of women's rights, during its 16-year run, The New Northwest emerged as a vigorous voice for women's suffrage and for liberalization of marriage law and property rights for women. The newspaper's motto was Free Speech, Free Press, Free People.
Abigail Scott Duniway was an American women's rights advocate, newspaper editor and writer, whose efforts were instrumental in gaining voting rights for women.
Harvey Whitefield Scott (1838–1910) was an American pioneer who traveled to Oregon in 1852. Scott was a long-time editorialist, and eventual part owner of The Oregonian newspaper. Scott was regarded by his contemporaries as instrumental in bringing the state of Oregon firmly into the political camp of the Republican Party.
Goose Hollow is a neighborhood in southwest Portland, Oregon. It acquired its distinctive name through early residents' practice of letting their geese run free in Tanner Creek Gulch and near the wooded ravine in the Tualatin Mountains known as the Tanner Creek Canyon. Tanner Creek Gulch was a 20-block-long, 50-foot-deep (15 m) gulch that started around SW 17th and Jefferson and carried the waters of Tanner Creek into Couch Lake. Over a century ago, Tanner Creek was buried 50 feet (15 m) underground, and the Tanner Creek Gulch was filled in. The only remaining part of the hollow is the ravine, Tanner Creek Canyon, carved out by Tanner Creek through which The Sunset Highway carrying US-26 passes and which the Vista Bridge spans, also called the Vista Viaduct.
The Hilton Portland Downtown and Duniway Hotel are a pair of Hilton-brand hotels located in downtown Portland, Oregon. The original 22-story, 240-foot (73 m) tower was completed in 1962 and was named the Hilton Portland. The second tower with 20 floors, located kitty-corner from the original building, to the northeast, was completed in 2002 and was originally named the Hilton Executive Tower, until its renaming as The Duniway Hotel in 2017. The 1962 building was the tallest building in the city for three years until surpassed by the Harrison West Condominium Tower in 1965.
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Clyde Augustus Duniway was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the president of the University of Montana from 1908 to 1912, the University of Wyoming from 1912 to 1917, and Colorado College from 1917 to 1924.
Onward was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Tualatin River from 1867 to 1873, on Sucker Lake, now known as Oswego Lake, from 1873 to 1874, on the Cowlitz and Lewis rivers. This vessel should not be confused with the similar sternwheeler Onward built in 1858 at Canemah, Oregon and dismantled in 1865.
Sarah Ann Shannon Evans was an American clubwoman and suffragist based in Portland, Oregon, president of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs from 1905 to 1915. She was the first woman in Portland to carry a police badge, in her work as the city's first Market Inspector. She also worked for state funding of free public libraries in Oregon.
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Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty was an African American abolitionist and suffrage advocate who joined Abigail Scott Duniway, Maria P. Hendee, and Mary Ann King Lambert in 1872 to cast ballots as American citizens and women in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the first Black women to publicly agitate for women suffrage west of the Mississippi.
Mary Osborn Douthit (1850–1908) was an early white settler of the Oregon country, a teacher, a prominent advocate of woman suffrage, and editor of the book The Souvenir of Western Women, published to coincide with the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905. She immigrated to Oregon in 1853 at the age of three. Her parents were James Harrison and Lueza Osborn Douthit. She was killed when struck by a streetcar in downtown Portland in 1908; she had been living in Portland for 15 years. According to fellow suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, Douthit's untimely death cut short a literary career on the cusp of success. Her book had brief, positive mentions in the Oregon Historical Quarterly and in the Pacific Monthly.
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